[Paraview] New ParaView

Dominik Szczerba domi at vision.ee.ethz.ch
Mon Jun 19 10:28:20 EDT 2006


Could you please kindly shed some more light on fltk? I assume the look
was not the only criticism?
Thank you
Dominik

Andy Cedilnik wrote:
> Hello Arash,
> 
> We spend some time evaluating various widget sets and so far the most
> robust is Qt. Fltk is great, but it looks unusual. wxWidgets looks more
> native, but there are stability issues on various platforms, such as Mac
> OSX.
> 
> As far as accessing Server Manager without GUI, it is actually possible
> and not that hard right now. The API is not well documented externally,
> but we do offer a ParaView developers course.
> 
> Hopefully that helps.
> 
>       Andy
> 
> Arash Jahangir wrote:
> 
>> As I understand it, the next version of ParaView will be Qt based. 
>> Personally I find the Qt license wanting and I wish Kitware had chosen
>> wxWidgets or FLTK, but it is probably too late to ask for this...so I
>> cut to the chase:
>>
>> Will version 3 of ParaView provide clear separation between UI and the
>> functional code so that it is a relatively easy task to write an
>> alternate GUI for ParaView?  If so, how can I find documentation on
>> linking another GUI to the ParaView engine?
> 
> 
> 

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