nanogui: nanowm
Subject:
Re: nanowm
From:
"Greg Haerr" ####@####.####
Date:
18 Dec 2000 17:38:57 -0000
Message-Id: <008e01c0691a$8a8063b0$6817dbd0@censoft.com>
: usable, Greg was talking about porting the toolkit from the W window
: system (assuming he can get the author to put it under a license of some
I have the Wt toolkit running on Nano-X. Unlike W, which is
very ugly and gross, Wt seems to be simple and elegant. It
provides all the basic widgets that a simple toolkit needs,
like edit, listbox, scrollbars, etc.
The reason that I like Wt is that it's about as object-oriented as one
can get in C. For instance, there's a single create procedure,
wt_create(). This function takes a class name (actually, widget_template *)
to specify the widget to create. It's very easy to build complex
widgets built from simple widgets. Contrast this with GTK+,
which has a separate gtk_create_button, etc for every single
widget, and very little object orientation (at least in the namespace).
Wt's license is a little open for interpretation, however, which isn't
good. The latest version is GPL, but the versions prior are available
as some sort of "free" license, which isn't really specified too well.
Wt is also documented very well.
Regards,
Greg
