Difference between revisions of "Fast Light Toolkit:Reviews"
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Other requirements sought : Unicode support / Works with SQLite | Other requirements sought : Unicode support / Works with SQLite | ||
=== Experience with | === Experience with Fast Light Toolkit === | ||
I had some initial problems getting the Hello World project to compile with FLTK. This was due to an omission in the [http://www.fltk.org/doc-1.3/basics.html online instructions]. When compiling with VC++ you need to explicitly define WIN32 (e.g. /DWIN32 in the C/C++ compiler command line). Also where it says COMCT<font color=red>R</font>L32.LIB it should say COMCTL32.LIB. Having sorted those points out I actually got my "Hello World" displayed! | I had some initial problems getting the Hello World project to compile with FLTK. This was due to an omission in the [http://www.fltk.org/doc-1.3/basics.html online instructions]. When compiling with VC++ you need to explicitly define WIN32 (e.g. /DWIN32 in the C/C++ compiler command line). Also where it says COMCT<font color=red>R</font>L32.LIB it should say COMCTL32.LIB. Having sorted those points out I actually got my "Hello World" displayed! The functions provided by FLTK appear refreshingly simple to understand and I'm hopeful I'll be able to do what I need to with it. | ||
=== Conclusion === | === Conclusion === | ||
Revision as of 07:42, 5 June 2009
Review of Fast Light Toolkit by PaulBlay
Usage background
Preferred IDE : Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition
Preferred Platform : Windows XP
Other requirements sought : Unicode support / Works with SQLite
Experience with Fast Light Toolkit
I had some initial problems getting the Hello World project to compile with FLTK. This was due to an omission in the online instructions. When compiling with VC++ you need to explicitly define WIN32 (e.g. /DWIN32 in the C/C++ compiler command line). Also where it says COMCTRL32.LIB it should say COMCTL32.LIB. Having sorted those points out I actually got my "Hello World" displayed! The functions provided by FLTK appear refreshingly simple to understand and I'm hopeful I'll be able to do what I need to with it.
Conclusion
At this point this appears to be the most hopeful looking of all the toolkits I have tried. I will most likely add to this review as I find out more about it.