Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp From: Elliott Oti Subject: Re: GUI Lib for DJGPP Sender: usenet AT fys DOT ruu DOT nl (News system Tijgertje) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 08:47:22 GMT References: <34452E28 DOT 9D8A7775 AT mpinet DOT net> Organization: Physics and Astronomy, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands Lines: 24 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk 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