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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: ciVic on April 28, 2016, 10:19:16 AM

Title: Something like MUI for OSX/Win/Linux?
Post by: ciVic on April 28, 2016, 10:19:16 AM

Hi all,

I know some GUI toolkits but never saw something that is comparable to MUI. I'm not talking about the design. I would like to have something that is as easy as MUI, say, opening a windows by using some C Macros and just call a function. And that has this object oriented approach like MUI.

Title: Re: Something like MUI for OSX/Win/Linux?
Post by: kolla on April 28, 2016, 06:03:52 PM

Doubtfully easily simple. Qt is a good candidate though, and exists for OSX/Win/Linux and more :)

Title: Re: Something like MUI for OSX/Win/Linux?
Post by: ciVic on April 28, 2016, 06:46:44 PM

Qt is simple for the first steps and looks good on various OSes. But distributing software using it results in large archives and it needs preprocessing with special commands. That's what I like in MUI. It is realized just with C macros.

Best what I found so far is fltk. Even statically linked a simple hello world exe has only 500kb, a simple window needs only 3 lines and it can be compile with just one additional compiler and linker flag.

Title: Re: Something like MUI for OSX/Win/Linux?
Post by: guest11527 on April 28, 2016, 06:52:00 PM

Quote from: ciVic;807665

I know some GUI toolkits but never saw something that is comparable to MUI.

There are multiple. gtk is certainly a popular one (used by Gnome, amongst others), another is qt (used by KDE, amongst others).

Title: Re: Something like MUI for OSX/Win/Linux?
Post by: billt on April 29, 2016, 11:42:12 PM

I don't know how it or others compare with mui, but my favorite is wxwidgets.