Yes, I've played in Glade a little, wasn't crazy about it. And GTK3 looks awful, just the amount of text for a hello world program.
I wanted to use Motif but support for it is vanishing it seems. Athena, I hate the scrollbars. What I want to work at is an SDR (Software Defined Radio) program so the more efficiently it can update the spectrum area the better. It's almost like video, people use 2 - 30 frames per second, meanwhile getting data in over USB and doing an FFT on it, plus demodulating in different threads. In real time. I'm not seeing a widget in GTK that draws that efficiently. QT can do it, or Java Swing, or even just plain old bare XLIB, except I wanted some widgets. I was hoping to use a Motif DrawingArea. There isn't room for a lot of bloat between the code and the screen. XDrawLine is fast enough. There's a qtcsdr https://github.com/ha7ilm/qtcsdr/archive/master.zip which isn't bad as far as it goes, written with QT. It runs at 50% CPU or so on a Raspberry Pi 3. I'd add a button to turn off screen updates so it could run more in the background. Just playing with ideas at this point. On 10/24/17, Hi-Angel <hiangel...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > -- ------------- 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
