Re: Nokia to Acquire Trolltech to Accelerate Software Strategy

Jan Panteltje wrote:

I am using xforms, http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/xforms/
it is extremely small, uses callbacks for the GUI, and so far I have been
able to write anyting I wanted with it.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2447324 2006-01-31 14:10 /usr/X11R6/lib/libforms.a
2.5MB
But only Linux of course.

Ha! Mines bigger!
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5.2M 2008-01-12 07:46 /usr/lib/libfltk.a

Oh wait, not necessarily a good thing in this case, lol!

I belive FLTK was initially created from SGI's Forms. I'm not sure if that's
the same as xforms? However, FLTK does have the benefit of being
cross-platform though (Linux, Mac and Windows).

--
Chris
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