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Kuwiano

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Registered: 2011-02-21

Posts: 17

GUI Programmierung

In our School we lern how to programm windows form applications. So I thought there must be some alternative for Linux. But after trying gtk+ and qt .... no not really. I am not able to make a simple calculator. So is there any alternative like WFA?

akb825

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Registered: 2011-03-27

Posts: 87

Re: GUI Programmierung

If you want something like Windows Forms, you can actually use Windows Forms with mono. (http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page) I'm not sure it's 100% cross compatible, but it's at least close.

Kuwiano

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Registered: 2011-02-21

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Re: GUI Programmierung

I would have no problem with qt if it can do the same as WinForms for me. If I have an textbox or something like this it didn't even give me autocomplete... too difficult for the beginning

Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

Posts: 6,688

Re: GUI Programmierung

too difficult for the beginning

It's only difficult because you think you can do it the same way as you "learned" at school. Start from the scratch, bring some time and read a tutorial.

Kuwiano

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Registered: 2011-02-21

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Re: GUI Programmierung

mhh ok any suggestions for a good IDE / GUI Designer in one?

ewaller

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Re: GUI Programmierung

When playing with Qt, did you use Qt Designer to develop your GUI graphically?
Did you use Qt Creator as your IDE?  It has autocomplete and requires no fiddling to get it set up for Qt.

If you don't want C++, maybe take a look at Python with PyQt.

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Kuwiano

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Registered: 2011-02-21

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Re: GUI Programmierung

I used QTCreator for both ... and it didn't work no autocomplete and nothing also I got immadetly the error mainwindow.o wasn't found

Stebalien

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Registered: 2010-04-27

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Re: GUI Programmierung

Try glade, python, and pygtk.

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invalidArgument597

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From: Ohio, United States

Registered: 2011-04-02

Posts: 37

Re: GUI Programmierung

Honestly, you've got several options here. I'm a bit curved to the GTK side of the fence, so my reccomendation would be Glade with pretty much whatever-language-you're-most-comfortable-with's GTK+ bindings. I'm primarily a Perl dev, so I use Glade with Perl and Perl-Gtk2, however for some Perl is like an allergic reaction, so it depends on what you're most accustomed to. Since you made Windows apps, I assume that was in C#. Very similar to that, as I'm sure you know, is Java, and for that you could use Netbeans with the (semi official) Swing toolkit, there's even a GUI builder there. Hope you can take some info out of this.

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cafejunkie

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Registered: 2010-12-22

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Re: GUI Programmierung

I myself am partial to QT (I find everything overall more intuitive) but YMMV. The thing is with WinForms is the way the Visual Studio GUI builder works is different from how things are done on this side of the computing world
With GTK (as well as most other UI Toolkits) rather than just "dragging and dropping" your widgets freeform into the window you actually need to create containers for those widgets. It is a bit of a learning curve if all you are used to is building GUI applications with WinForms in Visual Studio.
I would follow the other's recommendations about C#. Get yourself monodevelop and dive in with a GTK# application. Coming from a visual studio/win forms world it will feel very familiar to you. If you want to skip mono and GTK# I will add a +1 to glade although I'd go with python and pygtk vs perl gtk for a beginner (don't get me wrong, Perl is great and I love it but it's not something I'd recommend to someone in your current situation ).

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Re: GUI Programmierung

Try glade, python, and pygtk.

Should use  PyGObject these days

Anyway, Kuwiano, what language are they teaching you at school?

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