I am a bit confused if you're talking of modern toolkits, or older ones, or in general. If in general, than this is untrue — QtCreator allows you to design GUI pretty much like Borland Delphi or Visual Studio. For GTK alike thing is Glade — it's not so good as "design" tab in QtCreator by virtue of being a stand alone utility, but otherwise it works in alike fashion.
On 24 October 2017 at 23:25, Alan Corey <alan01...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hmm, thank you but http://motif.ics.com/forum is now read-only. As is > http://www.motifdeveloper.com/. I wanted to use C, not Lua. > > Maybe I'll have to bite the bullet and learn QT. I have this theory > that part of the reason there's so little modern software for Unix in > general is because there aren't tools like Borland Delphi to write it > with. Yes, I've tried Lazarus and thought it was a hodgepodge of > patches with the documentation a worse hodgepodge. I have little > problem writing command line stuff but making any GUI work is like a > holy grail. Maybe Java Swing then it's portable. I was enjoying the > retro aspect though. > > On 10/24/17, Matthieu Herrb <matth...@herrb.eu> wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 12:45:27PM -0400, Alan Corey wrote: >>> I like playing around with the old stuff, because to me it seems >>> simpler and more efficient than GTK3 or QT. When it works. I'm still >>> trying to wrap my brain around mapping, managing, realizing widgets in >>> the right order. >>> >>> I started out, put a notebook into a window, then a rowcol onto a page >>> of it, then a drawing area in the top of that. When I try to draw to >>> it whatever I draw is clipped to about the top 10 pixels. Why? That >>> sort of stuff. Yes, I've got copies of vol6a, etc, the original >>> O'Reily books. If I spent a couple years reading I could probably >>> find the answer but I'd forget my question. Is there a forum of Motif >>> freaks? >>> >> >> The motif zone is still online : http://motif.ics.com/ >> and you may want to have a look at https://github.com/arcapos/luamotif >> -- >> Matthieu Herrb >> > > > -- > ------------- > No, I won't call it "climate change", do you have a "reality problem"? - > AB1JX > Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach > _______________________________________________ > xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support > Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg > Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > Your subscription address: %(user_address)s _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
