Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:34:11 -0400
From: David Muse <dmuse@4accesscommunications.com>
Subject: Re: [nanogui] widget toolkit

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:08:01 -0600
"Greg Haerr" <greg@censoft.com> wrote:

> : I'd like to use a widget toolkit of some kind (like GTK, wxWindows, Qt,
> FLTK, etc.) rather than coding my own widgets.  Can anyone recommend a UI
> toolkit that "pretty much works" with microwindows?  What issues did you run
> into with the toolkit (cross-compiling, getting fonts to work, etc.)?
> 
> There's an older version of FLTK (FLNX) that has direct support
> for nano-X.  This is included in the PIXIL project at pixil.org.  The
> make system allows for an automated cross-compile for the ARM
> platform.  GTK and Qt can be made to work, but we use
> NXLIB, an Xlib->nano-X translation library.  Not everything is
> implemented, and both GTK and Qt are large.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Greg
> 
> 

Thanks,  I'm checking out flnx right now.

I had some trouble getting it to build using an arm-uclibc-linux gcc-3.3.1
toolchain.  Here's a patch that fixes the problems I ran into, if you're
interested.  All minor stuff.

Dave Muse
dmuse@4accesscommunications.com


--- flnx.orig/src/Fl_Animator.cxx       2003-08-07 17:18:39.000000000 -0400
+++ flnx/src/Fl_Animator.cxx    2004-10-21 09:26:57.067365984 -0400
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
  
 Fl_Animator::Fl_Animator(char * const *image, int X, int Y,
                         int fcount, int fwidth, int fheight,
-                        int interval, const char *label = 0)
+                        int interval, const char *label)
   : Fl_Widget(X,Y,fwidth,fheight,label)
    
 {
diff -urN flnx.orig/src/Fl_Scroll.cxx flnx/src/Fl_Scroll.cxx
--- flnx.orig/src/Fl_Scroll.cxx 2003-08-07 17:18:40.000000000 -0400
+++ flnx/src/Fl_Scroll.cxx      2004-10-21 09:26:41.603716816 -0400
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@
 #include <FL/Fl_Scroll.H>
 #include <FL/fl_draw.H>
  
-#include <iostream.h>
  
 // Insure the scrollbars are the last children:
 void Fl_Scroll::fix_scrollbar_order() {
diff -urN flnx.orig/src/Fl_x.cxx flnx/src/Fl_x.cxx
--- flnx.orig/src/Fl_x.cxx      2003-08-07 17:18:40.000000000 -0400
+++ flnx/src/Fl_x.cxx   2004-10-21 09:26:48.599653272 -0400
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@
 #include <string.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <sys/time.h>
-#include <iostream.h>
  
 #define CONSOLIDATE_MOTION 1
 /**** Define this if your keyboard lacks a backspace key... ****/