Linux GUI Development

Question

A study of what is there, and which is better used in the development of a graphical interface that supports ARM and X86-based applications.

thanks in advance, T3nG

Answer 1

The Qt framework should work well for this.

Answer 2

Check out the Qt Creator IDE . It has a free version (LGPL).

Answer 3

OpenMoko Freerunner¹ is ARM based and it launches the Qtopia / QtE, GTK and E17 UI stacks. All of them are also supported on x86. The GTK is based on Cairo, and I have heard (not sure) that it uses a lot of floating point calculations, so ARM with GTK may not be very fast.

¹ http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner

Answer 4

you can use olso gtk with ruby ​​or c. a lot easier than swing

Answer 5

Maemo leads Nokia internet tablets that are based on ARM.

Answer 6

Depending on the power of your device ...

The biggest can now be:

• GNOME Mobile
• Qt Embedded

or if you have devices with much less features, you can try simpler things like

• Microwindows / nanox

Of course, if your device is mobile, you can also use Android ... who knows ...

Answer 7

For a truly RAD solution, you can use

• fpGUI
  • https://sourceforge.net/projects/fpgui/
  • http://www.turbocontrol.com/easyfpgui.htm
  • http://www.turbocontrol.com/embeddedfreepascal.htm
• CodeTyphon
  • http://www.pilotlogic.com/sitejoom/index.php/gallery
  • http://www.pilotlogic.com/codetyphon/help/codetyphon_current_status.htm
  • http://www.pilotlogic.com/sitejoom/index.php/codetyphon
  • http://www.pilotlogic.com/codetyphon/help/layers_and_areas.htm