I've found myself starting to use GTK more and more because of the widget
support. For ease of use, XForms wins easily. However, when you need a grid
or tree widget, you have to go elsewhere.
That would be my one and only complaint about XForms. We have 32 widgets
available. I've probably used 10 of them. 3 are downright useless, yet we
don't have a grid or a tree which are very common GUI objects.
Mathew
On Tue, 09 Mar 1999, you wrote:
># To subscribers of the xforms list from "Danny G. Holstein" <danny@holstein.tritonetd.com> :
>
>
>On 09-Mar-99 Dick Middleton wrote:
>>
>> BTW I've been meaning to ask for a while: how does xforms compare with GTK.
>> It's definitely lower profile but is it better/worse/different?
>>
>People who use my xforms-based program (technicians) don't know they're not
>using Windoze. In going through the available GUIs and especially the GUI
>builders I like xforms the best, it's all a matter of personal preference. I
>get a sense that TC actually uses what he "sells", all the other builders seem
>to be missing a key something that prevents me from actually getting useful work
>done. Another point is that xforms isn't strictly for C++ programmers like the
>others are, I've looked at MGUI, Motif, GTK etcetera and find the "cost of
>ownership" to be the best for xforms.
>
>BTW: I studied physics in college and know FORTRAN and C, I fail to see why
>programmers have a need to constantly invent new programming languages that are
>bound to be forgotten, Java, TCL/TK, Python, C++, Objective C, SQL, Perl, BASIC,
>VB; show me something that can't be done in C, numerical stuff is easier in
>FORTRAN (lots of libraries). [sorry, just venting]
>
> ...Dan
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