Easier way to make Window GUI Applications?

[FourSight]

I don't want to spend a lot of time on programming GUI.

I want to make Windows with buttons, etc. Anyone know of a simple library that does this?

[Moschops]

Pick one out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_widget_toolkits#High-level_widget_toolkits

[FourSight]

Thx!

[andywestken]

I use FLTK for lightweight, cross-platform GUIs.

Fast Light Toolkit
http://www.fltk.org/

FLTK isn't as rich (no system abstractions, etc) as wxWidgets or Qt, the main players in the cross-platform GUI toolkit arena, but it is very straightforward to use.

And it's fast and light!

For assorted examples of its use, see:

Erco's FLTK Cheat Page
http://seriss.com/people/erco/fltk/

[Disch]

Last time I used FLTK it seemed alright but the windows and widgets looked like absolute garbage. Looking at their webpage and the screenshots now, it seems like that might not be the case any longer.

Are they using native widgets yet? Or are they still doing custom drawn widgets?

[andywestken]

I'm not sure about the version under development, but the current release still uses custom drawn widgets. Not so pretty, I suppose, but ideal (to me) for cross-platform utitilies.

If you want cool buttons with FLTK, check out FLTK Imago
http://imago.functionalfuture.com/

(Prob too much fun for Office-like applications)

[Chance Zibolski]

I would use Qt. Qt is nice and easy to learn.