cross platform gui tool kit

[paul_cour at verizon.net (paul_cour at verizon.net)]

Hello

Iam curious, does wxPython
add any potential to this debate?

thanks for any comments...

paulc


>From: Matthew Gillen <me at mattgillen.net>
>Date: 2006/12/11 Mon AM 08:14:02 CST
>To: Stephen Adler <adler at stephenadler.com>
>Cc: discuss at blu.org
>Subject: Re: cross platform gui tool kit

>Stephen Adler wrote:
>> The gui tool kits is what I'm looking for. I prefer open source, for all 
>> the open source reasons, but if there is a pay solution which is much
>> better then I'll consider that avenue. Basically I want to write a GUI
>> intensive application which I can run on linux, windows and macs.
>
>Ok.  Programming language still matters, perhaps more than it should.  The
>reason I was asking about what your specific license requirements are is that
>it /can/ make a difference:
>
>QT, as Jerry mentioned, is a great C++ toolkit.  I learned a lot about the
>proper way to use C++ by working with QT.  However, note that it is dual
>licensed: you can use it for free under a GPL license, but this in turn
>"infects" your code with the GPL license.  If you want to buy a commercial
>license from Trolltech, then you develop closed-source apps with it.
>
>GTK+: This written in C, and the native interface is C-based (although there
>are wrappers for C++, Python, and others). It is LGPL, which means it does
>*not* infect your code with it's license.  So you can write proprietary apps
>with it for free.
>
>There are other C++ ones, like fltk, and someone else mentioned wxwidgets.
>There are also some for other languages like Tcl's Tk.
>
>You can check out this article, even though it's a few years old by now, it's
>still pretty informative:
>http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/928/
>
>Matt
>
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