Subject pages attached to craig:computer/prog/gui

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1.	ClanLib [download] [documentation] ClanLib is a medium level development kit. At its lowest level, it provides a platform independent (as much as that is possible in C++) way of dealing with display, sound, input, networking, files, threadding and such. URL: http://www.clanlib.org/

2.	GTK+/Gnome Application Development This is the official GNOME programming manual, and is also a printed book available in stores (New Riders Publishing, ISBN 0-7357-0078-8). The book is under a free license. It's in CVS under the GGAD module. URL: http://developer.gnome.org/doc/GGAD/
3.	Gnome Developer's Site On this site you will find information about current GNOME projects, developer news, documentation, information on how to get involved. URL: http://developer.gnome.org/
4.	Gnome Developer Documentation [FAQ] The Documentation available here will give the developer all that he or she needs to know to develop applications for GNOME. URL: http://developer.gnome.org/doc/
5.	Gnome API Reference Here you will find detailed reference documentation for the GNOME and GTK+ APIs. Please keep in mind that these projects are works in progress and not all areas will be complete at this time. URL: http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/
6.	Gnome Developer Tutorials In this section you will find tutorials for creating GNOME applications, applets, components, and more. We have tried to provide PostScript versions for you to print where applicable. If there is a tutorial that is kept off-site and has no PostScript, please contact the author. URL: http://developer.gnome.org/doc/tutorials/
7.	Gnome homepage The GNOME project has built a complete free and easy-to-use desktop environment for the user, as well as a powerful application framework for the software developer. URL: http://www.gnome.org/

8.	GTK+ / Gnome Application Development This book is about Gnome from a developer's point of view; it describes how to write a Gnome application using the Gnome libraries and tools. URL: http://www.andamooka.org/reader.pl?section=ggad
9.	The GIMP Toolkit GTK+ is an Open Source Free Software GUI Toolkit, primarily developed for use with the X Window System. URL: http://www.gtk.org/
10.	Glade Glade is a free user interface builder for GTK+ and Gnome. URL: http://glade.pn.org/
11.	GTK v1.2 Tutorial This is a tutorial on how to use GTK (the GIMP Toolkit) through its C interface. URL: http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/
12.	GTK+ Reference Manual GTK API and Overview. URL: http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/gtk/index.html
13.	The GTK+ Reference Documentation Project GTK+ is already a very stable, powerful, and flexible toolkit. The greatest lack at the current time is good reference documentation. URL: http://www.gtk.org/rdp/
14.	¬Developing Linux Applications in GTK+ and GDK [Eric Harlow] Example code from a book on GTK. URL: http://www.bcpl.net/~eharlow/book/

15.	KDE Tutorial This is a tutorial that teaches how to develop a simple KDE application step by step, with explanations on every line of code and giving always more importance to clean code than to build a real application. URL: http://www.arrakis.es/~rlarrosa/tutorial/index.html
16.	KDE Tutorial: XML editor This document describes how I converted an existing KDE application to use the new XML based user interface framework. I chose to use 'kedit' as the example application since it has a combination of standard and non-standard items and definitely needs to be standards compliant. URL: http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/xmlui/preface.html
17.	KHello Tutorial This is the KDE version of the famous Hello World! program. If you have never made a KDE program in your life, this is for you. URL: http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/khello/khello.htm
18.	KDE Developer How-To To help develop KDE or a KDE application you need to know how to (i) find KDE information and code, (ii) use CVS, and (iii) compile. This document aims to help to you do these things without losing too much hair. URL: http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/howto/develHOWTO.html
19.	KDE Developer's Corner Resources for writing programs for KDE. URL: http://developer.kde.org/
20.	Apps.KDE Programs for KDE. URL: http://apps.kde.com

21.	KXAnim he kxanim widget is a xanim wrapper to allow video playing on your apps. URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Haven/3864/aktion.html

22.	Macintosh Toolbox Essentials [apple dev docs] [PDF version (909 pages)] nside Macintosh: Macintosh Toolbox Essentials describes how to implement essential user interface components in your Macintosh application. The Macintosh Toolbox is at the heart of the Macintosh. URL: http://devworld.apple.com/techpubs/mac/Toolbox/Toolbox-2.html
23.	Introduction to MacOS programming List of starting links for programming on a macintosh computer. URL: http://developer.apple.com/macos
24.	Sample MacOS code Samples are designed to work with CodeWarrior 2 or later and Universal Interfaces 3.2 unless otherwise noted. Archives can be uncompressed with StuffIt Expander 5.0 or later. URL: http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/
25.	Introduction to Menus A menu is a user interface element you can use in your application to allow the user to view or choose an item from a list of choices and commands that your application provides. Menus can appear in several different forms: pull-down menus, hierarchical menus, and pop-up menus. URL: http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/Toolbox/Toolbox-90.html
26.	Sample Code: C++ TESample CPlusTESample download (146.4 KB) Version: 2.0.1 Date: Friday, November 18, 1994 Description: This version of TESample has been substantially reworked in C++ to show how a "typical" object-oriented program could be written. To this end, what was once a single source code file has been restructured into a set of classes which demonstrate the advantages of object-oriented programming. URL: http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/Sample_Code/Overview/CPlusTESample.htm
27.	Example Code: Sprocket This is a sample showing "guts" (framework) of a Macintosh application. URL: http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/Sample_Code/Overview/Dave_Falkenburg_s_Sprocket.htm

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¬DevCentral Tutorials: MFC & Win32 The goal of this series is to help you to gain an understanding of the fundamental concepts that make MFC programs work under Visual C++. It will significantly improve your abilty to understand code written by other MFC programmers if you are new to MFC. URL: http://devcentral.iftech.com/learning/tutorials/submfc.asp

29.	¬Introduction to Motif Application Development This series contains a set of tutorials that help you to learn how to write windowed applications using Motif and the C programming language. These tutorials start at the very beginning, and teach you the essentials of Motif programming. URL: http://devcentral.iftech.com/learning/tutorials/misc/motif/
30.	Lesstif homepage LessTif is the Hungry Programmers' version of OSF/Motif®. LessTif is source compatible with OSF/Motif® 1.2, meaning that the same source should compile with both and work exactly the same. LessTif is free software : LessTif is licensed under the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL). URL: http://www.lesstif.org/
31.	lesstiff Xlt widget set The Xlt widget set is a group of larger and smaller utility widgets, authored by Rick Scott unless stated otherwise. URL: http://www.lesstif.org/Xlt.html
32.	The Xbae Widget Set The Xbae widget set is a group of three widgets, originally part of the Bellcore Application Environment. The Xbae widget set currently consists of three widgets : XbaeMatrix, XbaeCaption and XbaeInput URL: http://www.lesstif.org/Xbae.html

33.	Cross-platform Toolkits A list of toolkits for writing crossplatform GUI programs. URL: http://www.wxwindows.org/lnk_pgui.htm

34.	Open GL Homepage OpenGL is the premier environment for developing portable, interactive 2D and 3D graphics applications from modeling to scientific to games. URL: http://www.opengl.org/
35.	GLUT GLUT (pronounced like the glut in gluttony) is the OpenGL Utility Toolkit, a window system independent toolkit for writing OpenGL programs. It implements a simple windowing application programming interface (API) for OpenGL. GLUT makes it considerably easier to learn about and explore OpenGL programming. GLUT provides a portable API so you can write a single OpenGL program that works on both Win32 PCs and X11 workstations. URL: http://reality.sgi.com/mjk_asd/glut3/glut3.html
36.	Mesa Mesa is a 3-D graphics library with an API which is very similar to that of OpenGL. URL: http://mesa3d.sourceforge.net/

37.	Sample code Samples posted after the release of Mac OS X are designed to built with Project Builder and Mac OS X, or CodeWarrior 6 unless otherwise noted (Note, CodeWarrior 6 projects can be opened in CodeWarrior 5). URL: http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/index.html

38.	TrollTech Qt Webpage QtTM is a GUI software toolkit. Qt simplifies the task of writing and maintaining GUI (graphical user interface) applications. Qt is written in C++ and is fully object-oriented. It has everything you need to create professional GUI applications. And it enables you to create them quickly. URL: http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/qt.html
39.	Overview of Qt You need Qt if you develop GUI software for the X Window System and/or Microsoft Windows. Qt brings you up to speed and helps you to create efficient software with a modern user interface. URL: http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/qtinfo.html
40.	Signals and Slots documentation The Meta Object System in Qt is responsible for the signal/slot mechanism for communication between objects, runtime type information and the dynamic property system. URL: http://doc.trolltech.com/metaobjects.html
41.	Qt programmig tutorial This tutorial gives an introduction to GUI programming using the Qt toolkit 2.1.1 . It doesn't cover everything: The emphasis is on teaching the programming philosophy of GUI programming, and Qt's features are introduced as needed. URL: http://doc.trolltech.com/tutorial.html
42.	Qt OpenGL OpenGL is the powerful de-facto standard for 3D rendering. The Qt OpenGL extension makes it easy to add a full-fledged GUI to an OpenGL program. It lets you interface the OpenGL renderer to the Qt user interface. URL: http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/opengl/
43.	Qt Documentation The Qt documentation is generated automatically from the C++ source and header files by a custom-written program. HTML, man pages and Postscript are all generated from the same source. URL: http://www.trolltech.com/developer/reference/documentation.html
44.	Qt example program listing Here are some of the example programs that are included with Qt: aclock/main.cpp addressbook/main.cpp application/main.cpp biff/main.cpp buttongroups/main.cpp checklists/main.cpp cursor/cursor.cpp , etc. URL: http://doc.trolltech.com/examples.html
45.	Qt API Structure Overview Top level overview of Qt classes. URL: http://doc.trolltech.com/topicals.html
46.	Qt Class Index [Member Function Index] [Class Inheritance Hierarchy] Alphabetical listing of Qt classes URL: http://doc.trolltech.com/classes.html
47.	Qt Embedded [FAQ] The Qt/Embedded product provides you with all you need to create stunning graphical user interfaces for embedded devices. Qt/Embedded installs and runs with a very small memory footprint on any device running embedded Linux - without using X11. URL: http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/embedded/
48.	Gnuplot frontend via Qt Xgfe is a GUI front end to the Gnuplot plotting package. It is developed under Linux, is written in C++, and uses the Qt v1.32 widget set. Xgfe tries to make your life with Gnuplot a little easier. It does not currently support every option of Gnuplot, but it supports many things. The development philosophy is a tasked oriented approach. URL: http://home.flash.net/~dmishee/xgfe/xgfe.html
49.	A Real-Time Data Plotting Program [David Watt] This article describes the implementation of rtp (real-time plotter), a live x,y data plotting utility based on the Qt windowing library. rtp combines live updates with zoom in, auto-scaling, and auto-tracking modes. It is meant to be used where gnuplot is limited, such as the termination of a live data pipeline. URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue73/3921.html
50.	Qt Toolkit and the development tools for Qt Qt toolkit API contains about 250 C++ classes; some classes are templates. The library includes lots of ready-to-use widgets for professional-looking user interface creating. URL: http://www.geocities.com/koro7355/qttoolkit/qttoolkit.html
51.	Free software and contributions to Qt Here is a list of free programs and libraries that use Qt. URL: http://www.trolltech.com/developer/sharecontrib/qtprogs.html

52.	PerlQt Use Perl as an interface to QT. URL: http://www.accessone.com/~jql/perlqt.html

53.	Quanta: HTML editor [screenshots] URL: http://quanta.sourceforge.net/
54.	Fract-o-rama [screenshots] All fractal images are specified using the program's fractal scripting language, so it is possible to explore a wider variety of fractal types/options than with many other generation programs. Full source is included, and the program readily compiles/runs on UNIX or win32. URL: http://apps.kde.com/nf/2/info/vid/3431?br=true&sid=e55431d6e48fc6e75d79ad2094f8f634

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Qt Designer and KDevelop for beginners [Anne-Marie Mahfouf] [PDF.tar.bz2] Qt is the toolkit used by the KDE project for developing graphical applications. This paper shows a beginner how to create a simple application using Qt Designer and KDevelop-1.4. This tutorial is based on an article written by Jono Bacon for Linux Magazine UK issue3 and the application used there is from his article. URL: http://women.kde.org/projects/coding/tut_kdevelop/

56.	Qt interface to Gnuplot [screen shots] Xgfe is a GUI front end to the Gnuplot plotting package. It is developed under Linux, is written in C++, and uses the Qt v1.32 widget set. Xgfe tries to make your life with Gnuplot a little easier. It does not currently support every option of Gnuplot, but it supports many things. URL: http://home.flash.net/~dmishee/xgfe/xgfe.html
57.	qwt [screenshots] Qt widget for 2d Plots. URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qwt
58.	Qt/AI This is a set of Qt Widgets to display 1D, 2D and 3D Data. URL: http://qtai.sourceforge.net/
59.	Mouse: C++ library for finite volume simulations MOUSE has an interface to the Visualization Toolkit (VTK). In order to make things available and to maybe speed up a new release as well, we decided to make development snapshots available on a regular basis. URL: http://www.vug.uni-duisburg.de/MOUSE/
60.	Gizmo3D Gizmo3D is a high performance 3D Scene Graph and effect visualisation C++ toolkit for Linux, WIN32 and IRIX used in Game or VisSim development. Future releases will support BeOS and MacOS as well. URL: http://www.tooltech-software.com/
61.	Samplin [alternate site] [screenshot] SampLin is Scientific Data Acquisition, Visualization and Process Control software for Linux and other unix platforms. URL: http://data.iemw.tuwien.ac.at/~kvasnica/samplin/

62.	wxWindows wxWindows is a set of libraries that allows C++ applications to compile and run on several different types of computer, with minimal source code changes. There is one library per supported GUI (such as Windows, GTK+, Motif, and Mac). URL: http://www.wxwindows.org/
63.	wxWindows online reference [class list] URL: http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~zeitlin/wxWindows/docs/

64.	X-windows consortium X.Org is the worldwide consortium empowered with the stewardship and collaborative development of the X Window System technology and standards. URL: http://www.x.org/