| ID: | 5851 |
| From: | rn...@igor2.repo.hu |
| Date: | Fri, 23 Sep 2022 09:19:35 +0200 (CEST) |
| Subject: | [pcb-rnd] miniboxtk: anyone interested in early testing the API? |
| replies: | 5857 from rn...@igor2.repo.hu |
Hi all, as per our long term plan, I am spending most of my time on miniboxtk these days (and fixing bugs in librnd, pcb-rnd, and sch-rnd in the background). Miniboxtk is a GUI toolkit. To put it simple, it is a software library that can draw and operated buttons and menus. In a software stack it is on the same level/role as gtk, qt, fltk, motif or tcl/tk are. Miniboxtk used to be my "sdl GUI toolkit" but it got a redesign this summer and it is not hardwired to sdl anymore but offers multiple optional backends: sdl2 (for maximum portability), glfw (for medium portability and opengl-only rendering) and xlib (for direct X11 access without extra layers in between). Miniboxtk is implemented from scratch. It is a typical "rnd project" written in C89. External dependencies are only those optional graphical backend libs. Lowest possible set of dependencies with fully working widgets is xlib (no motif, lesstif, libxt, etc). I am in an early stage of development but things already starting to work, I can create dialog boxes with buttons and checkboxes. Is anyone with programming experience interested in testing the API? Especially if you plan to write GUI applications later and you want to try a smaller/simpler alternative, miniboxtk may be a good candidate. Joining testing early gives you a better position in affecting direction of development. Best regards, Igor2
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