[PLUG] GUI Development

[Ted Kubaska]

I'm trying to use Eclipse with the Visual Plugin (with Swing or SWT). I'm
noew to it but right now it's kindof working.
 -Ted 

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[mailto:plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of JOHN F EWING
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 15:07
To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
Subject: [PLUG] GUI Development

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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