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>Planned support for systems in the near future: Linux GTK3/4 FLTK is better then GTK on linux. Since version 1.4 FLTK supports HighDPI displays and Wayland ht

• sylware 2y ago
  FLTK is c++, then a definitive nono?
  • frfrrf 2y ago
    Look at FLTK's source code. It's a minimal set of C++. Like C with classes.
    • sylware 2y ago
      Then it is c++, then a definitive nono. Plain and simple C99+ port?
      • frfrrf 2y ago
        >Then it is c++, then a definitive nono. Language with OOP is good for GUI!
        • sylware 2y ago
          Language with OOP like c++ and similar (rust/java/etc) is ultra-complexity builtin the syntax itself which spills to their compilers (basically clang(apple)|gcc). That reasons alone is enough to do GUI with other languages.
      • frfrrf 2y ago
        >Plain and simple C99+ port? C89 bindings https://github.com/MoAlyousef/cfltk https://github.com/MoAlyousef/cfltk
        • sylware 2y ago
          The second your require a gigantic and insanely complex c++ and similar compiler for your SDK, it's over.
          • frfrrf 2y ago
            As for complexity and gigantism: https://openhub.net/p/qt5 https://openhub.net/p/qt5 (8,876,034 lines of code) https://openhub.net/p/gtk https://openhub.net/p/gtk (1,031,203 lines of code) https://openhub.net/p/fltk https://openhub.net/p/fltk (467,564 lines of code)
            • sylware 2y ago
              You have an "amplification" due to the language used: you cannot compare the "cost" of C lines with c++ lines. They don't pull the same SDK dependency in the end. Basically, to be fair, in qt5 and fltk cases you should add an amplification factor of at least "10" (probably not big enough since c++ syntax and tens of times more complex than plain C99+).
              • frfrrf 2y ago
                Compare dependencies: GTK3 https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/gtk3/-/raw/main/PKGBUILD?ref_type=heads https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/gt... GTK4 https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/gtk4/-/raw/main/PKGBUILD?ref_type=heads https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/gt... and FLTK https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=fltk-git https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=fltk-... If you build FLTK with Wayland support, then add deps: wayland, libxkbcommon, pango.
                • sylware 2y ago
                  You don't seem to understand my point: the second you are using c++, it is over.
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• luke8086 2y ago
  This was also my first thought, but looks like it's already designed to be toolkit-agnostic, like NetSurf. So it should be easy to port to fltk or anything else. $ ls -1 fixgui_\*.c fixgui_cocoa.c fixgui_gtk.c fixgui_haiku.c fixgui_win32.c