In short, what are the MFC equivalent class libs available on linux (for g++)? Are they good? widely accepted?
Thanks.

oldbee

In contrast to MFC where even Microsoft Word is pesumably someday going to end us as "an Integral part of Windows", Linux has a definite division between basic functionality and UI programming.

There are several options floating around - some purport to be "universal" (same source runs under both X amd MS-Windows) and some of which are special-purpose (like the gtk libraries for Gnome).

I do most of that stuff in Java these days, so I can't rate them, but if you look on SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net) and FreshMeat (http://www.freshmeat.net) you should be able to see many of them.

Thanks mtsinc, cool web sites!

i prefer QT. it has a free version for windows and linux available at trolltech. its pretty well documented as well

Looks like Qt is a big thing on X11! However, I can not use the free edition of it because of the license issue. I am developing non-opensource commercial software I guess that would stop quite some people to use it.

I kind of curious what trolltech did to the free edition to make the enterprise edition so they can sell it without violating the original free edition license.