Still Searching For A Good UI Library

Qt looks promising but every time I try to do something it throws up a wall of pain that I need to figure out how to either scale or accept. I hate that. Currently I’m struggling to get it to link to an external library that I created in Qt. So I can’t get a Qt created exe to easily link to a Qt created library – not promising. That gives me hives thinking about the future implications.

I guess I’ll take a look at wxWidgets as it’s the only other reasonable one out there. I looked at a ton of other libraries but, man, some people just don’t know how to create a web site that looks appealing. I mean, I don’t care about the HTML or what the screen actually looks like but take this one piece of advice to heart – if you’re peddling a cross platform UI library, include screen shots of your sample apps running on each platform you support. That sounds obvious, I know, but it’s apparently an unknown strategy to almost every UI library author out there.

I may end up using Qt in the end but I think wxWidgets deserves a shot now.

3 Responses to “Still Searching For A Good UI Library”

  1. Joseph says:

    What about GTK?

    it looks pretty good if not close to native Windows when using the right them and Looks great in linux.

  2. Joseph says:

    just looked at the wxWidgets which looks nice as well

  3. Warren says:

    I bookmarked GTK and it’s definitely on my “to check out” list.

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