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gui fucking toolkits fuck

Name: Anonymous 2014-10-06 12:21

Is there a GUI toolkit that doesn't suck balls? Mobile app developers get a load of APIs for creating nice, native looking stuff with smooth animations and transitions, but on the desktop we get crap that struggles to make anything that looks polished. The cross platform ones tend to look out of place on all platforms, and for creating something with smooth animations and transitions, you're probably better off using fucking node-webkit, I mean really? OS X developers seem to have it the nicest with Cocoa, that actually seems nice but I don't run OS X. Can someone give me some example desktop applications that have the level of polish that seems to come standard with mobile apps? I want to be inspired. Shit on mobile stuff all you like, but you gotta admit, they look better. Am I just going to have to either put up with garbage or make GUIs with openGL or something?

Name: Anonymous 2014-10-06 18:20

For seples, I find FLTK to be the most comfortable to use, although it is lacking in advanced features and polish.

wxwidgets is a mess, gtk+ has too many dependencies and drags along too much bulk, qt tries to force you into writing your code around their library and using their sub-par build environment (qmake).

The only sane alternatives I can see are FLTK, JUCE, and possibly CEGUI.

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