Can I develop a Graphical Interface in C in a short period of time?

dennyvm · 01-16-2004, 01:36 AM

Hello everyone...
Is there anyway to develop a graphical interface in C quickly for a packet sniffer that I'm developing....Could someone please help me out? Also are there ay sites that provide info on the 'exec' ,'system' functions in C other than the man pages...
I thank jtshaw and luxtan for their replies to my first post.
Could u please explain how to create a timestamped file and also how to get its size and other info using C?

Thank u...--->Dennyvm

LogicG8 · 01-16-2004, 03:40 AM

GUIs aren't typically simple or fast develop in.
You can try using a RAD IDE to generate a lot
of boiler plate code for you. KDevelop does a
nice job.

As for file information check out
man fstat

L1nuxbug · 03-13-2004, 10:56 PM

hi dennyvm
.. i am working on the packet sniffer too.. and please can you give me some meterial ragarding ur project ??????

Strike · 03-13-2004, 11:12 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by LogicG8
GUIs aren't typically simple or fast develop in.
You can try using a RAD IDE to generate a lot
of boiler plate code for you. KDevelop does a
nice job.

Ew, code generation. Shame on you for suggesting that

The superior approach is to generate a file that describes the GUI (in GTK, Glade does this, and I guess QT Designer does it for QT), and then to use a library which creates the GUI on the fly based upon that description file. So, for GTK it'd be libglade ... I'm not sure what it is for QT if it's even possible. At any rate, you avoid nasty code generation, which sucks a LOT, and you get the benefit of using a RAD GUI builder.

Marius2 · 03-15-2004, 06:40 AM

If you want to do it with a few lines of c code rather than with a RAD, GTK may be the way to go.

http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/

You may also want to take a look at wxWindows if you plan to let your code run under Linux and this MS thing, but AFAIK it's more complicated than GTK (which has a Windows port too if I remember correctly).