[PLUG] GUI Development

Mark Turner amerine at gmail.com
Wed Jul 5 22:27:14 UTC 2006


Hello John,

It sounds like your looking for an Open Source solution, but I suggest that
ya take a look at RealBasic.
Http://www.realbasic.com

I have used it on Linux & mac for GUI app development, and I love it.

Just a suggestion.

-Mark

On 7/5/06, JOHN F EWING <jkewing9 at msn.com> wrote:
>
> This is a software development question:
>
> I've done GUI development in Windows using VisualC++ 6.0 (pre .NET),
> VisualStudio.NET (using both C++ and C#), Borland C++ Builder and NetBeans
> (using Java of course) - these are all IDEs. I've done lots of command line
> development on both Unix and Linux, but not GUI development and not using an
> IDE to do it with - just vi (to create/modify the source code) and
> makefiles. I'd like to do some GUI development in Linux, but I'm not sure
> where to begin. I want to create a database application (MySQL looks
> adequate and it's open source) using labels, push buttons, combo boxes,
> graphs, menus and whatever other GUI widgets I may happen to need. Also, I'm
> not picky about which language to use, although I do prefer the C language
> family like C, C++, Java, C# and Perl and I'd like to stay away from VB.
>
> Can any of you, who have done GUI development in Linux, suggest how I
> might get started on this path? Maybe even point me to a web tutorial?
>
> Part two of this question would be how would you test such an application
> (other than ad hoc testing, of course)?
>
> Thanks in advance ...
>
> -John Ewing
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