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What's your favorite GUI API and why?
Alexander Adams
Noah Gomez
GTK is Gnome. QT is bloated as fuck you need like 2GB of space to install it.
John Brown
Because it's as much GUI as can be needed, and no more. Anything more is therefore pure bloat, and even curses can be bloat for many applications.
Evan Evans
Kek'd
Btw, CIA thread
Carson Hall
It's always hilarious when dilettantes claim that ncurses is minimal. Eat a shoe nigger.
Blake Cooper
I have written a library in C and I want a GUI that's just a thin wrapper around the library. The library does all the heavy lifting, the new code would just be writing the GUI and hooking it up to the library.
What is my best choice for a GUI framework. I want something that supports drag&dropping a file into the GUI to get its file path, and dragging&dropping a file out of the gui onto the desktop or into a file manager.
Josiah Flores
your going to get fucked into using Gtk, just get used to it
also enjoy rewriting all your code from C to GTK/C
Jayden Bennett
in reality though use gtk but keep your library completely seperate from anything that is infected with gtk
if you want to test with valgrind/memcheck or whatever you'll have fun with gtk
wiki.gnome.org
gtk throws constant memory leak errors and gnome's response is just suppress the errors, but the suppression garbage they give you only suppresses 25% so have fun digging through a sea of gnome memory leak errors to find yours.
Zachary Adams
TBH because of shit like this QT is the only viable native GUI API around these days. And that's only because they have commercial licenses bringing in a shit ton of money.
Dylan Thomas
Qt is 10x as much bloat as Gtk is (and Gtk loves the bloat) and it's only C++, you can't use it from C.