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On Fri, 30 Aug 2013, Stefan Salewski wrote:
> What GUI toolkik did you use, seems to be not GTK or QT?

When I started the project, I was using Qt.  After some time I realized I 
spent too much time and code working around the problems with Qt, 
effectively writing a wrapper for the framework; some things didn't work 
properly even then (docks, for example, and the property editor).  GTK+ 
solved some of the problems, but it didn't solve others (I'd still have to 
poke around in the internals of the toolkit), so I decided to build a 
custom toolkit which exactly suited the needs of the program.

This worked out nicely.  I spent much time on the trickier parts of the 
toolkit (now I know why docks always are a problem), but the code turned 
out to be much clearer, and it was much easier to do some of the features 
that were previously a problem.

> Did you wrote all from scratch?

Yep.

> Which language did you use?

C++.  I'm planning to use a higher-level programming language (most 
probably Python) for the application code, though.

> Cairo or OpenGL rendering?

Neither--the toolkit is based on bare X, and I haven't implemented a 
dedicated renderer yet.

Roland