[IGSTK-Developers] Re: Why FLTK is used in IGSTK?

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Csaba,

Thanks for letting us know about the details of the wxWindows
license.

Please let us know if you find any issues while extending the
igstkView class. We can send you the Qt version of this class,
that may help you to identify the code that is common to all
GUIs and the one that you must customize to your GUI library.


   Best Regards,


      Luis


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Csaba Csoma wrote:
> Luis,
> 
> Currently I'm developing the software for Gabor Fichtinger's
> MRI Prostate Robot with ITK, VTK and wxWidgets.
> 
> The wxWidgets Licence is L-GPL, with an exception stating that
> derived works in binary form may be distributed on the user's
> own terms - so any proprietary software can use it.
> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/wxwindows.php
> 
> I worked out some wxWidgtes-VTK issues, and also I have a
> working volume reader (even if the DICOM has strange issues
> as I sent an e-mail about it to the ITK mailing list).
> 
> I'll evaluate IGSTK and if it meets our needs, I'll add the
> wxWidgets support.
> 
> Thank you,
>  Csaba
> 
> 
> 
> At 12/14/2006  01:25 PM, you wrote:
> 
>> Hi Csaba,
>>
>> Thanks for your interesting feedback regarding IGSTK.
>>
>> The main reason why we use and promote FLTK in the
>> IGSTK examples are:
>>
>>   1) FLTK is distributed under a BSD-like License
>>   2) FLTK is a light toolkit.
>>
>>
>> That being said, please note that you *do not have* to
>> use FLTK when you use IGSTK. We are also supporting Qt
>> as a GUI library.
>>
>> You could also extend IGSTK for other GUIs by extending
>> the View class. We will be happy to provide you details
>> on how to write an extension for another GUI if you are
>> interested in doing so.
>>
>>
>> Please let us know how you would like to proceed,
>>
>>
>>    Best Regards,
>>
>>
>>       Luis
>>
>>
>> ===================
>> Csaba Csoma wrote:
>>
>>> Luis,
>>> I'm a huge fan of VTK/ITK and I really appreciate your work.
>>> But now when I saw that IGSTK is using/promoting FLTK I must
>>> ask you: why?
>>> FLTK is one layer over the operating system, slow, ugly and
>>> potentially unstable. In my opinion exactly this is the reason
>>> we don't see any widely used Java application on desktops.
>>> wxWidgets is so much better (does not reimplement everything)
>>> and faster, why would anybody use FLTK for real applications?
>>> I understand the "fast and dirty" solutions with TCL for small
>>> test applications, but there's no way to create robust application
>>> in other than C++. And only native controls will look native,
>>> reimplementing menu/buttons/"File Open" dialog etc. is slowing
>>> (or stopping) the user acceptance of the application.
>>> Thank you,
>>>  Csaba
>>>
>>> Csaba Csoma
>>> Assoc. Systems Engineer
>>> ------------------------
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>>> mailto:csoma at jhu.edu
> 
> 
>