Which language should I use?

cron0 · Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 2:18 pm Post subject: Which language should I use?

I would like to code an application in X that I can put in "full-xcreen" mode (maximized w/o window controls, title and borders) in which I will be able to do basic things as display png images, buttons and text...

Which language should I learn to do this?
I already know very basic stuff of C/C++, I know perl, php and also VB and Delphi under windows...

Is Borland Kylix, which I heard is like Delphi for Linux, could be a good idea? If not, what else can I use?

Thanks!

cryos · Retired Dev Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Posts: 242 Location: US

C and C++ would be good candidates for use - I don't know exactly how to maximise a window to full screen, but it is certainly done. There are lots of graphical tool kits such as GTK, gtkmm, qt, wxwindows and so on that give you the basic building blocks to write your application. You could even talk directly to X if you wanted to go that deep.

They are certainly the two main programming languages I use for GUIs, and they work well. Lots of people do use others such as Perl, PHP, Python, Java and even more weird and wonderful laguages for GUIs too. If you already know C/C++ then I would recommend using that.

cron0 · Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 2:29 pm Post subject:

Well... When I sai I know very basic stuff about C/C++ I meant that I know basic things like stdin,stdout, variables, loops... I don't know anything about frame pointers classes...

I'll try to figure out some tutorials on wxWindow / wxWidgets, it looks like pretty easy to understand!

Thank you!

teknomage1 · Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 3:49 am Post subject:

also look into SDL

nonotme · Guru Joined: 29 Sep 2003 Posts: 356 Location: on.ca

i second the SDL suggestion, works great, and its portable.
www.libsdl.org
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