Re: X11 user programs under MacOS-X?

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Robin Rowe wrote:

>> Clearly it is not wise to expect MacOS users to have X11 available.
>
> We've found it a big pain with MacCinePaint.
>
> Your GUI isn't very complex. Have you considered switching from X11 to FLTK? 
> Then you'd be able to run on Mac natively without X11.

I saw that CinePaint is switching to FLTK for Glasgow.  I have FLTK 
installed here, but the FLTK GUI design app cores on startup. 
Presumably the crash is due to some bug with dealing with the large 
number fonts I have installed on my system since it seemed to be 
building a font cache when it crashed (it took quite a while before it 
crashed).

It has been recommended to me that wxWindows is a better choice in 
terms of widget sophistication and due to the fact that it uses native 
GUI widgets on each target in order to obtain the expected 
look-and-feel.  Of course, wxWindows is also much larger and more 
difficult to deal with at a project level.

There is in fact a wxWindows-based GUI (wximagick) for 
ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick which has simply never been incorporated in 
the project.  I have played with a pre-built wximagick for Windows and 
it performed quite well and is pretty complete even though it is 
a fairly simple GUI with pull-down menus.

Even if we were to adopt wximagick, I don't personally have enough 
time to devote to a GUI so I am looking for a volunteer to support the 
portable GUI.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
[email protected], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/


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