[Linux-aus] GUI programming

[Ashley]

I have used Gambas 3 quite often as it is very similar to Visual Basic 
and it makes it easy to convert a program from Gambas to Visual Basic if 
you want to develop applications in both environments.

I know you prefer not to use Python but it is a vert easy to learn and 
useful language with lots of objects available.

Also, if you are familiar with C you can use any number of IDEs and Kits 
with it. It is even easy to use Emacs as a development environment for C.

This is only the tip of what is available.

Ashley

On 22/05/2023 5:56 am, Simon Lees via linux-aus wrote:
>
>
> On 5/21/23 22:13, Russell Coker via linux-aus wrote:
>> What's the easiest way of doing GUI programming on Linux?  When I 
>> Google this
>> I get lots of results about Python programming, Python isn't a 
>> language I like
>> or want to learn but I wouldn't rule out using it for simple things 
>> if it is
>> much easier than other options.  I would prefer C/C++.
>>
>> What I would ideally like is a system like IBM's VisualAge for C++ on 
>> Linux.
>> When using VisualAge C++ on OS/2 I could write a program that had all 
>> the
>> basic controls and basic operations on them (EG enter text into an 
>> entry field
>> and click a button to have it added to a listbox) without writing any 
>> code.
>> For writing a GUI front-end to a server I could design all the screens
>> graphically and then just write C code to copy data between entry 
>> fields and
>> API calls.  But I have the impression that no such thing exists for 
>> Linux.
>>
>> I know it sounds horrible, but something like VisualBasic for Linux 
>> would
>> probably do.
>
> I have used pretty much all the Linux gui frameworks at some point, 
> and if I have the choice i'll always use Qt, if you know C++ once you 
> get your head around its event system and Signal Slots (Callback 
> System) everything is pretty straight forward and QtCreator will get 
> you a long way pretty quickly, it allows you to drag out and layout 
> UI's from components like buttons so all you have to do after is link 
> them to functions.
>
>> What I want to do is move many of the things I do on my laptop to a 
>> phone and
>> that requires less use of the command-line.  So shell scripts need to be
>> replaced with GUI operations and ssh to run commands on a server 
>> needs to be
>> replaced by API use or parsing ssh output for GUI display.
>
> I have used Qt with android in the past, I redid the main UI with 
> bigger buttons and with the android NDK installed was able to build 
> and deploy it as a test app. That was a few years back I haven't tried 
> recently.
>
>
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