nanogui: Thread: widget toolkit

Hello,

We've been using microwindows to provide a UI for an embedded platform for a while now.  So far we've only needed to draw text and images on the screen and a few lines and boxes here and there, so I've just used the nano-X api directly.  Recently, we added a touch screen to our platform and now everyone wants fancy widgets that you can press and scroll.

I'd like to use a widget toolkit of some kind (like GTK, wxWindows, Qt, FLTK, etc.) rather than coding my own widgets.  Can anyone recommend a UI toolkit that "pretty much works" with microwindows?  What issues did you run into with the toolkit (cross-compiling, getting fonts to work, etc.)?

Thanks,

David Muse
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: I'd like to use a widget toolkit of some kind (like GTK, wxWindows, Qt,
FLTK, etc.) rather than coding my own widgets.  Can anyone recommend a UI
toolkit that "pretty much works" with microwindows?  What issues did you run
into with the toolkit (cross-compiling, getting fonts to work, etc.)?

There's an older version of FLTK (FLNX) that has direct support
for nano-X.  This is included in the PIXIL project at pixil.org.  The
make system allows for an automated cross-compile for the ARM
platform.  GTK and Qt can be made to work, but we use
NXLIB, an Xlib->nano-X translation library.  Not everything is
implemented, and both GTK and Qt are large.

Regards,

Greg

David Muse wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> We've been using microwindows to provide a UI for an embedded platform for a while now.  So far we've only needed to draw text and images on the screen and a few lines and boxes here and there, so I've just used the nano-X api directly.  Recently, we added a touch screen to our platform and now everyone wants fancy widgets that you can press and scroll.
> 
> I'd like to use a widget toolkit of some kind (like GTK, wxWindows, Qt, FLTK, etc.) rather than coding my own widgets.  Can anyone recommend a UI toolkit that "pretty much works" with microwindows?  What issues did you run into with the toolkit (cross-compiling, getting fonts to work, etc.)?

We're using FLTK-1.1.5 with microwindows and nxlib.

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Steven

Steven Scholz wrote:

> 
> We're using FLTK-1.1.5 with microwindows and nxlib.
> 

same here, with much success...

regards,
h

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