[IGSTK-Developers] Re: IGSTK and FLTK (was Re: [Insight-users] Building error for Insightapplication 2.4.0.releated to FLTK 1.1.6?)

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Arash,


In IGSTK we removed dependencies from FLTK recently.

Now this is a CMake configuration option,
so you can build IGSTK with and without FLTK.

--

The main reason why we have been using FLTK for the
demo applications in ITK is that FLTK is compact,
minimalistic, and have a LGPL modified license that
allow us to do static linkage without that making
our applications to be considered "derivative work".



It is hard to say that development with FLTK is easier
than with wxWidgets. GUI discussions are like religious
wars: they are all pointless. So we avoid them at any price.


When somebody claims that a GUI  X is better than GUI Y,
we smile, tap them in the shoulder, and wish them the
best luck with GUI X.





    Regards,



        Luis



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Arash Jahangir wrote:
> Luis Ibanez wrote:
> 
>> FLTK 1.1.6 is now distributed with a CMakeLists.txt file.
>>
>>
>> You can use CMake in order to configure FLTK just as you
>> do with ITK and VTK.
>>
>>
>>
>> For a recent version that we have tested for the IGSTK
>> project, you may want to take the FLTK zip file from:
> 
> 
> 
> Does this suggest that IGSTK is now dependent on FLTK or that at least 
> development is easier with FLTK than wxWidgets?
> 
> On a somewhat related note, what is your opinion (and the thread's 
> opinion) about wxWidgets vs. FLTK?  I'd like to know about the thread's 
> experiences with merits of tools, community support, etc available for 
> developing in each case as well as the stability of ease of usage of 
> each library.
> 
> thanks,
> Arash
> 
> 
>