This will be my last post on this thread. No matter what is said, I still am biased by my own experiences. For the apps I develop, all my end users are on PCs, a dedicated Mac workstation, or (mostly) dedicated dumb net terminals hosted by Citrix servers (eg 'cloud computing' on tiny boxes probably ...

Thanks Joshy for the info.
Btw, if you didn't read the gui thread, don't bother. I still think FLTK and this lib are the best choice for FB.

I was hoping this thread would lead to a lot of collaboration *yea team !!!! Let's DO IT Yea..." Then reality set in. I would really like to get back to the original post... I think a consensus is forming that a comprehensive GUI framework that looks a lot like VB6 will not happen. That is ok, ...

One thing to keep in mind is UPX (at least on windows) can compress exe size 2 - 5x smaller without any noticeable performance in launch time. It seems to me, as pointed out by St_W, that Qt is C++ and doing a C-wrapper would be a lot of work because it is so big. I have looked at FLTK C-wrapper and...

I don't think that FB should suggest a third-party GUI toolkit of choice, yet bindings should be provided so that they can be easily used (which is already the case for a lot of them). I just suggested that since a lot of the **grunt** work has already been done. Starting from scratch is a lot of w...

Well this topic quickly grew! I would like to focus more at the "Action" part of the thread. From what I can tell the trend is 1) native API in windows 2) GTK or QT in Linux and Mac OSX 3) Do not change the FB compiler 4) We may never agree on a FB GUI language so we all will just end up u...

the VB code actual code or some streamed format?

Actual code that you would get from a download archive. I find it very handy to be able edit widgets by text in addition to visual designers. I am very interested in seeing how this thread grows

While Part 3 is taken up by sound library i am starting a thread on action on a much more global GUI standard for freebasic: Personally I would use FB more if it had a powerful and simple GUI. 1) I really appreciate lots of developers coming up with their own GUI, BUT this is more confusing as they ...

I would agree with these comments. A hack in fb is likely to be more work than using a library. If you do decide to put some effort into this, i suggest looking at the demos using fltk. Another could be tinyDialog. For me it was almost plug and play simple. Like spend 30 mins on it, and it should st...

On thing you can try is coversion to emscripten. Basically c output converted to javascript. That will run on mostly anything

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Hello DJ --- if you still exist...

This library is based only on IUP library?
If so, why IUP instead of FLTK? Was it easier to interface since FLTK is C++ ??
The download does not include source code for DLL, will you release it?

Thanks Sir

Generally agree with what has been said but specifically 1) Forum needs a better search. You can't search 'Qt' or 'IUP' What????? 2) FB is great if you like old-style QB language, but for FB to grow (and continue to be relevant) it needs a powerful native GUI or at least a large sample of code files...

After writing a gui-heavy program like FreeQ, you will really appreciate OOP.

There are several gui-designers like Visual mingw studio and others, all similar like fbedit. They produce .rc and .res files. Then i started with FreeBasic. Here i found Firefly and FreeQIDE. It works with RapidQ, which is oop, could be of interest here: Actually FreeQ is still being worked on - I...

>> strengths; what works well GCC and GAS backend. What an incredible accomplishment IMHO. Now I can re-use my super old BASIC code (and public code) and recompile with FB and have it run fast. Some call that "lazy" I call it "efficent." Pointers, OOP, access to powerful C librar...