[olug] Running before walking. Graphical C

[Eric Penne]

You should give me that one also.  Since I already have your Perl book.
:)

Can the Perl/wxPython programs be (correct my terms if I'm wrong)
statically compiled so that I can just run the program from a CD
without writing to disk or asking for any outside programs?

Eric

--- Dave Burchell <burchell at inebraska.com> wrote:
> Does your project need to be in C/C++?  If not, you might consider
> Perl/Tk for Windows.  Years ago when I worked with it it did a pretty
> good job without much effort, and the code would run on Unix or
> Windows, so you could develop on Unix and deploy on Windows.  AFAIK,
> the level of control Tk gives you over the look, feel, and layout of
> the windows components is not quite so fine-grained as in Java or Xt,
> but if controlling every pixel is not required, Perl/Tk might deserve
> a
> look.  I have an O'Reilly book I can lend you on Perl/Tk if you like.
> 
> Eric Penne says:
> > 
> > I need to write some GUI stuff for Windows for a project that I am
> > involved with.  I have a windows machine but use Linux mostly.  Is
> it
> > possible to write Windows GUI stuff in Linux and then just test in
> the
> > windows world?  What do I need to start with?
> > 
> > This is just a learning experience mostly.  My stuff probably won't
> be
> > incorporated into the code, but it will get us away from the Visual
> > Basic stuff that is being used now.  Using and opensource compiler
> and
> > stuff for this project is very important.  Maybe we should just
> > implement this in HTML.
> > 
> > My next big project is a GUI interface for a CLI program in X.  
> > 
> > Eric
> > 
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