FLTK
FLTK (pronounced "fulltick") is a cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit for UNIX/Linux (X11), Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X. It provides modern GUI functionality without the bloat, and supports 3D graphics via OpenGL and its built-in GLUT emulation. FLTK is designed to be small and modular enough to be statically linked, and also works fine as a shared library. It also includes an excellent UI builder called FLUID that can be used to create applications in minutes.
| Tags | Software Development Libraries Widget Sets |
|---|---|
| Licenses | LGPL |
| Operating Systems | Unix Mac OS X Windows Windows OS/2 POSIX |
| Implementation | C++ |
Recent releases
- 28 Jun 2008 09:19
Changes: Improved color contrast in secondary selection blocks of Fl_Text_Display, a fix for a regression in callback handling, a fix for incorrect relative paths when the absolute path has a trailing slash in fl_filename_relative, a fix for multiple selection of files and directories in Fl_File_Chooser, and a fix for a crash under MS Windows when selecting umlauts in Fl_Help_View.
- 27 Mar 2008 12:48
Changes: This release fixes many bugs, and improves OS X and Quartz compatibility and overall reliability. It has a new GTK+ style theme, better GLUT4 compatibility, and alpha blending for image maps. This is the final release of the 1.1.x development tree.
- 17 Jan 2006 22:09
Changes: This release fixes many bugs, adds some new example programs, and adds many new improvements to the FLUID software, including multi-level undo, syntax highlighting in all code fields, widget alignment and sizing guides, dialog templates, widget subclasses, and printing and testing of user interfaces within FLUID.
- 13 Dec 2004 01:15
Changes: This version adds a Fl::delete_widget() method to safely delete widgets in callback methods. It fixes a problem where Fl_Double_Window produced an error on resize with X11 FLUID didn't display menu items using images properly, an issue where FLUID didn't handle default function parameters properly, and a problem where FLTK windows could appear off-screen on X11. The configure script now supports --disable-localfoo to completely disable image file support. The scandir() conditional code was fixed for HP-UX 11i. There were some Open Watcom fixes, and some fixes for the library include order when building DSOs on MacOS X. fl_xid() no longer causes Win32 applications to crash.
- 19 Oct 2004 15:24
Changes: This is primarily a bugfix release, including documentation updates, fixes for 64-bit platforms, FLUID, several widgets, and GLUT emulation, and fixes for several platform-specific issues. It also adds project files for Visual C++.NET and supports KDE 3.x icons.
- All comments
Recent commentsI think it's time for 2.0 version Mike...
I am getting tired of 1.x branch. There is FLTK v2.0 for SEVERAL YEARS! Mike, Bill, please let's start working on that! Pleaseeee!
Veri NICE
It's a very nice GUI API Interface, much better than GTK I think. Documentation shourld be a better explan on EVENTs and other stuf.
Installation of FLTK
Make sure you have the Mesa Development source available. glx.h needs to be around or the source won't compile.
the documentation on the drawing functions
Documentation on the drawing functions (other than the GL widget which is very nicely explained in a batch of source code) is rather obscure in my opinion. The toolkit itself is a very good one and deserves to be absorbed in to wide use. Much better than GTK for rapidity of simple app development. As for complex apps I wouldn't know... yet.