[vtkusers] GUI for VTK (was [DEMO] amira)

[Vieri Di Paola]

Has anyone considered using FLTK  (www.fltk.org) ? It's free, fast, light
and portable (Win95/98/2000/NT,Linux and soon MAC). It has OpenGL/MESA
support and a VTK widget, too. Version 2.0 (to be released hopefully 
within 2 months) should be even better.

Regards,
Vieri

On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Sathya Krishnamurthy wrote:

> > 
> > => my favorite "candidate" is wxWindows : http://www.wxwindows.org/, but 
> > I've NOT been playing with it for the moment. It looks serious, and seems 
> > easy to install. "It'a free C++ framework supporting Windows 3.1/95/98/NT, 
> > and Unix with GTK/Motif/Lesstif. A Mac port at version 2.0 is available. 
> > Other ports are under consideration." It has Python support : 
> > http://wxpython.org/.
> 
> 
> Here at CSCS, we have currently built atleast 3 UI for our customers. 
> 
> 1. was using Tcl/Tk
> 2. was using Togl - Tk/OpenGL
> 3. was using JAVA !!!!!??
> 
> well.. frankly all three *sucked* as far as performance is concerned..
> 
> 1. Tcl/Tk was sloooooowwwww.. but it moved over NT/SGI/Sun/Linux very
> easily
> 2. Togl again was slooowww. but we did not have much problems with
> porting..rather no additional code was written
> 3. Then comes the so-called Portable Java ..duh.!duh! duh! well sorry to
> say that SUN lied..terribly.. and performance was only comparable for Sun
> platforms.. even after super efforts to get it...running on other
> platforms... the software just died..
> 
> Well all these efforts were because the GLUT UI was terrible..
> 
> GTK might not be a good idea of Win Platforms.. i think wxWindows is the
> rite way to go.
> 
> Thanks for the email.
> cheers
> ~sathya
> 
> 
> 
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