programming a lightweight GUI in C

thethinker · 07-13-2007, 02:21 PM

Hey everyone,
I'm working on writing a simple little application and I'd like to give it a GUI. I've never tried this before, but I'd like it to be lightweight and fairly simple, and the code is in C. Anyone have any suggestions/favorites/no-nos? I've at least heard talk of GTK and Qt, are those good options?

Thanks a lot!

EDIT: lightweight because my laptop is oooollllddddd...using Xfce on Slackware and it just barely runs...

uv256 · 07-13-2007, 02:31 PM

You didn't mention what your program does...

but anyways i do recommend GTK+ it's pretty
comfortable to use... also you might want to check out XUL..
(I personally don't like neither GTK+ or QT or SDL for that matter

and am still waiting for someone to think out side the box....)

thethinker · 07-13-2007, 02:44 PM

Well, the application is a audio player. Right now it just plays .wav and .ogg files, but really the intention is more of a learning experience. I have been doing lots of scientific programming in C and I just wanted to try my hand at something different. I usually don't like audio program so I thought I'd try to write one myself and learn a few things along the way.

What about tcl?

uv256 · 07-13-2007, 02:58 PM

well... if you haven't done this by now
you might want to checkout the source code of xmms ....

amarok also has some nice features so you might want take
a little bit from here and a bit from there....