Re: [Chicken-users] cross-platform gui toolkit

[felix winkelmann]

On 2/7/07, Peter Busser <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > What all these toolkits share is a very static model of programming, which
> > is a pity. Qt4 has improved support for dynamic widget manipulation, but,
> > boy, it's fat.
>
> What is ``dynamic widget manipulation''? And how would a dynamic model
> of programming be diferent from the one used by Qt4?

Well, the nice thing about Qt 4 is that they have extended the
"meta-object" protocol:
you can modify most widget properties by name, that is: you have a
string designating
the property (say, background color) and can set it through a single
generic interface.

Another feature is that it can create widgets at runtime from an XML
spec and there is
a very nice GUI designer that generates that XML. As usual everything
is extensively
documented.

Still, it's big, slow and a bit proprietary. Powerful, though.


cheers,
felix