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UI Development Tools - Any suggestions?

Started by markgame66 Nov 13, 2009 at 2:56 AM 3 replies 1.5k views

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Nov 13, 2009 at 2:56 AM

Hi All, To start with I realise that this is a bit of a open ended question. I've been thinking of updating my MFC/OpenGL app to something a bit more up to date, and for no other reason to make it look more "tarty" :) As it stands at the moment, it's basically a MFC Dialoge app, covered with buttons, drop down selection boxes, data output boxes and an OpenGL window (For visulising a map). The real work is all in encapsulated in the engine so it should be really a case of jsut hooking it up to another UI front end. This time I have in mind some more full screen with the primary controls avaliable and menus that'll slide in for the other parts.... Just wondered if anyone had any suggestions for some tools that would make the job fairly hassle free - wife won't be overly impressed if I scoot off for ages learning something new ;) Thanks Mark

Fenrisulvur

Nov 13, 2009 at 3:09 AM

C++? Qt, wxWidgets, GTK+, etc. Lots of praise seems float around Qt, so on a whim I'd probably go with that - but I don't do native interfaces very often.

markgame66

Nov 13, 2009 at 3:27 AM

Yeah I was wondering about Qt.

The backend is C++, but can easly write wrappers for C# and the like.

Fenrisulvur

Nov 13, 2009 at 3:52 AM

Eh, native libraries aren't really conducive to the goals of managed platforms. I'd go with something implemented wholly in languages that compile to bytecode if I were looking for an alternate GUI package for C# (which I don't think I would, really).

Anyway, the swathe of language bindings, supported platforms etc, are more of a pro, really - it shouldn't dissuade in the slightest.

markgame66

Nov 13, 2009 at 5:16 AM

I shall ignore it :)

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