Graphics

misbahuddin · 07-13-2006, 11:09 PM

Hi All,

I would like to learn graphics programming in linux .
I searched in google for a while and I found Qt and Gtk and other tools for developing GUIs in linux. But I don't have any idea from where to start and which tool to go for. So , any suggestions in this regard would be appreciable.

Thanks.

Matir · 07-13-2006, 11:20 PM

What kind of graphics programming do you want to do? If you want graphical user interfaces, the GTK project has a great tutorial for gtk+2.0 at http://www.gtk.org/tutorial. If you want to do graphics in the form used for games or anything similar, you probably want to look at OpenGL.

paulsm4 · 07-13-2006, 11:46 PM

If you're interested in "computer graphics" (vs just applications that have "graphical user interfaces"), then some strong contenders also include:

OpenGL: http://www.opengl.org
SDL: http://www.libsdl.org
... or even ...
Java: http://java.sun.com
http://lwjgl.org/

Here are some other links with lots of options:
http://www.linux3dgraphicsprogramming.org/links.shtml

xhi · 07-14-2006, 09:19 AM

for starting out my votes would go to Qt for GUIs and SDL for graphics..