From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Basile Starynkevitch Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Make GUI for application Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2023 19:12:47 +0200 Message-ID: <88f8c04a-30a4-4e51-94ad-97161e70db01@starynkevitch.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22918"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cc: uzibalqa To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 12 19:13:52 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qg6xT-0005kz-8N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2023 19:13:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qg6wc-0005K2-8u; Tue, 12 Sep 2023 13:12:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qg6wY-0005Ar-Sn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2023 13:12:55 -0400 Original-Received: from relay5-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.197]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qg6wV-0001U6-P5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2023 13:12:54 -0400 Original-Received: by mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1893E1C0005; Tue, 12 Sep 2023 17:12:47 +0000 (UTC) Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: X-GND-Sasl: basile@starynkevitch.net Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.70.183.197; envelope-from=basile@starynkevitch.net; helo=relay5-d.mail.gandi.net X-Spam_score_int: -25 X-Spam_score: -2.6 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:145114 Archived-At: On 9/12/23 18:56, uzibalqa wrote: > I want to make a GUI for an application I am writing. What would people recommend I use that > is Free Software as defined by the FSF ? What does Emacs use for its GUIs ? > Maybe you want to use some open source graphical user interface toolkits. On Linux systems there are many of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_platform-independent_GUI_libraries On my Linux system (on which I download then recompile GNU emacs from its source code every day) GNU emacs is using GTK. https://gtk.org/ But you could consider using other open source toolkits like https://www.qt.io/ or https://www.fltk.org/ or http://fox-toolkit.org/ and many others. % /usr/local/bin/emacs-trunk --version GNU Emacs 30.0.50 Development version 2b6928edb978 on master branch; build date 2023-09-12. Copyright (C) 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. If I run /usr/bin/ldd /usr/local/bin/emacs-trunk the output has more than a hundred lines (libaries used directly or indirectly by GNU emacs) If I run /usr/local/bin/emacs-trunk /proc/self/maps 149 lines are shown. By the way, my pet open source project is the RefPerSys open source inference engine, see https://github.com/RefPerSys/RefPerSys/ and amateurish website http://refpersys.org/ (contributors to RefPerSys are welcome) Regards from near Paris in France. -- Basile Starynkevitch (only mine opinions / les opinions sont miennes uniquement) 92340 Bourg-la-Reine, France web page: starynkevitch.net/Basile/