Re: What GUI toolkit to use for an embedded system?

Andrew Reilly wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 02:07:51PM -0700, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
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>> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 02:16:29AM +0200, Magnus Eriksson wrote:
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>>> Does anyone here have any suggestions for a good GUI toolkit (such as
>>> GTK, Qt, etc) suitable for an embedded system?
>>>       
>> we're currently using homegrown libraries under nano-X, and if I had to
>> do it again I would look at embedded Qt or FLTK.
>>     
>
> I don't have first-hand experience of either (and would
> appreciate hearing it from anyone who has!) but I believe that
> both GTK and WxWidgets both have variations that run on bare
> frame buffers.  At least, their web sites have alluded to that
> possability at one time or another.  Isn't the Nokia 770
> tablet's Maemo GUI an example of GTK on a frame buffer?
>
> Cheers,
>
>   
Thefreecountry has a list of candidate toolkits.  I like Fox toolkit 
because it is C++ all the way with no layering or meta-object-compilers 
and such.   -Bob-
*http://www.thefreecountry.com/sourcecode/gui.shtml


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