Should a person new to windowed applications study X, GTK+, or what?

Question

Let's say the factors for valuing a choice are the library of widgets available, the slope of the learning curve, and the degree of portability (platforms it works on). As far a language binding goes, I'm using C++.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Pure X is quite hardcore these days, and not very portable. Basically, there are three major toolkits:

• GTK+ (and C++ wrapper GTKmm)
• Qt
• wxWidgets

which are pretty comparable, so which to choose is a matter of taste. All three run on major three operating systems, although GTK+ on Mac and Windows is little bit awkward.