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Lukasz Popowski

04/05/2008 1:28 PM

post6477

Hi all,

Is there any possibility to create GUI that may serve as cross-platform (multi-platform) one? Now building GUI in QNX 
Photon enables using GUI
only on QNX. I was going to build kind of GUI gtk+ (with Glade - gtk GUI builder) based on existing GUI, which is built 
with QNX application builder. 

Thanks for the answer.

Christian Leutloff

04/07/2008 9:28 AM

post6486

Re: Multi-platform GUI

We are also interested in developing our user interfaces in a way that they will run on QNX/Photon and Windows. The 
preferred programming language would be C++.

So far I was only able to find projects that are discontinued on the QNX side some years ago.

I was able to get gtk compiling on QNX 6.3.2 using the pkgsrc project on this site. But gtk will relay on an X11 server.
 That may work, but XPhoton, the X11 server on Photon, is not available with an actual X.org releases. I do not know if 
anybody will move the old xfree86 server to an up to date X.org based server.

An alternative would be to port gtk+ (gdk) to Photon. Gtk+ does already
run natively on X11 (that was the start), win32, quartz and directfb.
All of these ports are part of the gtk+ source. As it is stated that Photon
was designed with Xt in mind the port may be not that hard. But that is my estimation and I do not know Xt nor the 
Photon internals. Has anybody tried this way?

Mario Charest

04/08/2008 1:26 PM

post6531

Re: Multi-platform GUI

Never used it myself but there is Tilcon.  They say Linux support is coming.

> We are also interested in developing our user interfaces in a way that they 
> will run on QNX/Photon and Windows. The preferred programming language would 
> be C++.
> 
> So far I was only able to find projects that are discontinued on the QNX side 
> some years ago.
> 
> I was able to get gtk compiling on QNX 6.3.2 using the pkgsrc project on this 
> site. But gtk will relay on an X11 server. That may work, but XPhoton, the X11
>  server on Photon, is not available with an actual X.org releases. I do not 
> know if anybody will move the old xfree86 server to an up to date X.org based 
> server.
> 
> An alternative would be to port gtk+ (gdk) to Photon. Gtk+ does already
> run natively on X11 (that was the start), win32, quartz and directfb.
> All of these ports are part of the gtk+ source. As it is stated that Photon
> was designed with Xt in mind the port may be not that hard. But that is my 
> estimation and I do not know Xt nor the Photon internals. Has anybody tried 
> this way?
> 
>

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