Subj : wxWidgets
To   : comp.programming
From : Jyrki Alakuijala
Date : Mon Jul 04 2005 08:58 pm

Jon Harrop wrote:

> They all suck for graphics. Look at OpenGL, glut and SDL for
> platform-independent stuff.

In my opinion, GLUT is really terrible for GUI programming, and
only usable for making the most simple prototypes. The only
almost acceptable widget set that is widely available, free,
and almost good, is wxWidgets. (Qt is not that free, and
gtk does not work that well in Windows.) Again, the travel
path of an wxImage to the screen is utterly complex and slow,
but an OpenGL extension is available for it, too.
I do not know how well wxWidgets integrates with Ocaml, though.
Being pre-stl c++-code, dating back to times when inheritance
was considered almost a necessity, wxWidgets does not have the
most beautiful architecture.

It is a bit strange that wxWindows was forced to change its name
to wxWidgets because of pressure from Microsoft (as they have
a product called Microsoft Windows XP). Previously, there have
been many similarly named product families, like Sun's OpenWindows
and X Windows etc. -- How come Microsoft Windows did not conflict
with them? Perhaps they just bought the wxWindows team off their
original name (similar to the Lindows deal) ... ?

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