Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
From:	Elliott Oti <oti AT ruunf0 DOT fys DOT ruu DOT nl>
Subject:	Re: GUI Lib for DJGPP
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Date:	Thu, 16 Oct 1997 08:47:22 GMT
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At ftp://x2ftp.oulu.fi/pub/msdos/programming/djgpp2 there's TWS, a shareware
windowing system, and MGUI, a cross-platform windowing system. In addition 
there's JPTUI, a textmode user interface, and the djgpp port of Turbo Vision.
For the dedicated programmer there's always SWORD, of course. Jon Griffith, 
author of the much-underappreciated Jlib, is working on a GUI for JLib, and 
samples of the WIP are available from his site (search the WWW, I do not have 
an URL ready). And Allegro, though you did ask that it not be mentioned.
In my limited experience, Allegro's GUI is the easiest to learn, by far, and 
the quickest one in which to get fast-and-dirty results. MGUI and TWS look 
much more professional but have a denser API, hundreds of poorly documented 
functions and come without source code or user support (big plus for Allegro).
JPTUI is easier than TVision for textmode stuff (and tastes better, too :) I 
never got a SWORD program to compile, but I never tried very hard either. The
Jlib GUI is, at this moment, pretty unusable, but it is worth watching out for
as Jlib works under DOS, Linux, and Xwindow (with, reputedly, a Win95/NT port
in the works).

That's all he wrote.
-- 
  Elliott Oti
  kamer 104, tel (030-253) 2516 (SAP)    
  http://www.fys.ruu.nl/~oti

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