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im looking for cross platform GUI for free for commercial project
( that means i can't give the code ) no GPL and i guess no LGPL
what else its leaving me ? wxWidgets ?
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If you want to avoid LGPL, wxWidgets is probably the most feature-complete option. It uses a derivitive of LGPL which is more flexible on the distribution.
However, LGPL is fine for use with commercial works. The only restriction is that you need to link dynamically with the UI library, which is typically not an issue at all.
Using LGPL, you have many other options, including GTK, QT (as of 4.5), FLTK, etc. Of these, QT is probably my personal favorite.
You can ship a closed-source application that links to LGPL licensed libraries.
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which library is best for windows programing today in Visual C++, which one is most used today, etc
ATL, MFC, WTL and others.. and how many exist ?
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I'll start the answer "from the back": there are many libraries for doing UI on Windows :)
Having said that I do have a few recommendations for you:
If you want to do cross-platform UI development then I suggest you look into Qt framework
If your goal is to do modern Universal Windows Apps - look no further than the UWP technology
For creating COM components I would recommend ATL
If you choose MFC you will probably get outdated in the near future (definitely within the 10 years time frame)
But ultimately the technology stack you chose greatly depends on your language of choice and your expertise as a software engineer
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I'm new in C++ and looking for a way to create gui just like windowbuilder under eclipse (java).
I will appreciate if someone can help me to find tool like windowbuilder.
OS : Linux
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Personally I'm a fan of Qt.
However, it depends entirely on what you want to do. Qt is primarily for cross platform development, so it'll look and act mostly the same between any platform, it also has a large library that may require a bit of a learning curve at first - but the licencing options make it look pretty. Also the documentation is very awesome.
There are of course a lot of other options like:
GTKmm (based on GTK+), wxWidgets, FLTK, etc...
Also this is a duplicate question, so look at some of these other answers:
How do I create a GUI for a windows application using C++?
How do I build a GUI in C++?
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Generally I seak for ASL analogs for not only Windows and Mac OS X but once that would work on Linux. Qt GUI is not an option for me. Some simple scripting language that does not require precompilation for GUI to work (like in ASL Adam and Eve even XML would do=)
What I need from such a library - possibility to position some subset of OS default UI controls, somehow make the C++ functions I want avaliable to UI. I need that library to be open source, and have same API for all platforms.
You could try wxWidgets, but to be honest, if Qt doesn't do it for you, I don't know why wxWidgets would be any better. You can do layout for the GUI with text files, and they aren't precompiled into C++ code (though I don't know why that's a plus).
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I am looking for a cross platform gui library that can be used to create dialog boxes, that must fit the following requirements:
Be written in C or C++.
Be compatible with at least Windows, Mac and Linux.
Be relatively mature.
Be under a license that does not require Copyright text in the documentation of derivative works distributed in compiled form. Examples of good licenses would be the Zlib/libpng license, the Boost software license and of course public domain. Unusable licenses include LGPL, BSD, MIT etc.
Does anyone have any tips?
Kind regards,
Philip Bennefall
I'd go with wxwidgets. According to the license it it essentially LGPL with the following exception that applies to your question:
The exception is that you may use, copy, link, modify and distribute
under your own terms, binary object code versions of works based on the
Library.
How about the Fast Light Toolkit (FLTK)?
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We want to include data visualization in our desktop GUI (mostly timelines and graphs; clickable, draggable). We want to restrict to open-source, non-copyleft C++ libraries that allow commercial use and are portable across many platforms. Which library can I use? Our GUI is based on WxWidgets.
there is VTK.
And if data visualization is your thing, have a look at opendx too.
I think this question would be easier to answer if you also stated which other GUI components you use. Perhaps that limits the choice of available libraries. Since you're C++ and cross-platform, maybe wxWindows? Would be good not to have to guess.