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From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: windowing library recommendation for c++ dev Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 20:45:02 +0000 (GMT) > c++. I was wondering what experienced Linux developers > might recommend for a good windowing library. I see that > Redhat sells motif, but I've also heard there are a bunch > of other options. I'd like to use something that's fairly > object-oriented, stable, supported, and ideally, free. > Additionally, I was wondering if there are libraries and > or code available for client side web programming. I want > to port some NT apps that grab web pages and am looking > for a replacement for their "sometimes less than robust" > wininet api. For X windows programming the two main free toolkits now are Gtk (optionally +GNOME) and Qt (optionally +KDE). Gtk is LGPL licensed (so you can write commercial code with it), Qt will be under its own sort of "free if your app is open source" type license with Qt 2.0. Right now its under a fairly restrictive license that allows free use but not free modification. Gtk has a C++ interface if you prefer working that way. For grabbing web pages most people seem to just run wget or lynx from a script 8) ===