<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Qt's great, but it doesn't support Python, my preferred environment, when I don't need great speed. Sigh. What I've seen of WxWidgets doesn't thrill me, either, but it works in a broad range of environments. There aren't really any good FOSS solutions that I've seen, and the ones that aren't FOSS are too expensive to consider.</div><div><br></div><div>Oh, well. Maybe this is less of an issue than I think; right now I'm still struggling to build shared libraries; I'll know more when I start doing serious UI work.</div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Randolph</div></div></span></div></span> </div><br><div><div>On Jul 8, 2008, at 1:22 PM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi,<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Perhaps I can embed most of the the existing commands in C++ classes.<br></blockquote><br>Not sure if that's the best way to go, although I didn't look deep into<br>the code yet, I could imagine that it would make sense to create one (or<br>probaly several) shared libraries, which could be used instead of<br>embedding commands.<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Ideally, all the current code would be left unchanged; this would also<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">be "in addition to," rather than "instead of". The classes could then be<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">invoked from conventional cross-platform GUI code. I am looking at<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">WxWidgets for the GUI, but in principle any GUI classes or functions<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">could be used--even native Windows or Mac classes.<br></blockquote><br>if you're looking for c++, platform-compatible toolkits, I'd suggest to<br>use QT4 instead of wxwidgets. QT4 is nice to work with, and more<br>important, it has - in my opinion - a much more reliable upstream and<br>less bugs than wx. QT4 supports all important platforms - including OSX<br>and Windows, and supports OpenGL out of the box.<br><br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Bernd<br><br>-- <br> Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer<br> GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Radiance-dev mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Radiance-dev@radiance-online.org">Radiance-dev@radiance-online.org</a><br><a href="http://www.radiance-online.org/mailman/listinfo/radiance-dev">http://www.radiance-online.org/mailman/listinfo/radiance-dev</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>