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Unfortunately there is GTK2
by qtnice_but on Thursday 03/Jul/2003, @09:40

Sun and Macromedia are going to like GTK2 ...

GTK2, especially with c++ and c# wrappers shims and what have you, is really good. And it's still being developped and improved, cleaned and ported to native Win32 and Carbon. The advantage of C is it a flexible mess that can be easily ported and optimized :-( And ObjectiveC is the best of all :-(

Qt's *massive* advantage in documentation is gradually being eroded too ...

what to do??!!

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Re: Unfortunately there is GTK2
by anon on Thursday 03/Jul/2003, @15:11

> Sun and Macromedia are going to like GTK2 ...

Uhm..? Macromedia uses gtk? That's news to me

>GTK2, especially with c++ and c# wrappers shims and what have you, is really good

gtkmm, for what it's worth, still very much feels like a wrapper unfortunatly.. I agree it has been cleaned up from it's quite messy gtk 1.x days (and is now finally usable), but it doesn't feel like a nice, complete coherent solution like Qt does.

> And it's still being developped and improved, cleaned and ported to native Win32 and Carbon.

While there is a fork of gtk to use carbon, the main one still uses x11 unfortunatly :(

Last time I saw, gtk still doesn't integrate as well as Qt does on win32 either. It doesn't use WindowsXP Visual Styles, but rather uses gtk-engines :(

> The advantage of C is it a flexible mess that can be easily ported and optimized

true, but it's a myth that C++ can't be as portable. after all, Qt works very nice on both MacOS and Windows, and has for years. gtk might have also, but it still doesn't work well on either one.

> And ObjectiveC is the best of all :-(

I personally gind objective-C quite awkward and less powerful compared to C++. I think a lot of other people do, seeing the relative popularity of C++ compared to obj-C. But hey, if I had learned obj-C before C++, I might feel differently.

> Qt's *massive* advantage in documentation is gradually being eroded too ..

Agreed.. time for qt to use doxygen! (which ironically, uses Qt)

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