[XviD-devel] new gui proposal

[suxen_drol]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 20:43:26 +0200 Edouard Gomez <ed.gomez at free.fr> wrote:
> suxen_drol (suxen_drol at hotmail.com) wrote:
> 
> > are any  unix users interested  in developing a  cross-platform config
> > gui?  ie. fltk or some other gpl'd toolkit.
> 
> Yes we  are. I have no contructive  arguments here, but fltk  is just an
> horrible looking toolkit. The better would be to base the UI directly on
> the C Gtk2 widgets or use the C++ wxWindows wrappers. 
> 
> Basically both toolkit allow (all)  users to keep their desktop homogene
> with their usual look&feel while  fltk will completely break the overall
> looking (at least on unix). 

fltk was only an example...

> http://www.gtk.org/
> http://www.wxwindows.org/
> 
> PS: wxWindows is a wrapper C++ library, it uses Win32 widgets on Windows
> systems and Motif/Gtk on Unix.

gtk looks okay from a programming perspective (plain c).
the runtime win32 dll is rather large though, ie. 1.6meg.

-- pete