Hello, I see there are GTK bindings for Julia language for those desiring to write desktop GUI app. However I’m evaluating whether Julia can replace Python as suitable language for writing GUI apps which has things like PyQt which is probably better option than GTK. There is Cxx project providing …

I also use GNOME so I like Gtk’s look’n’feel - the only consideration is that I?m repeatedly told that it looks like crap on Mac OS & Windows…I do not run Windows any longer, even under Virtualbox since XP was the last license I had and never had access to the Mac OS… Are you concerned about the …

As a general observation on this issue, I think it’s pretty frustrating that we don’t have a good answer to this, but I think we’re not alone – the GUI toolkit space seems to be long on options and short on satisfaction. It seems that you can have two of the following three: Cross-platform. Really…

Not sure if I fully agree. In my experience scientific apps are actually pushing UIs to the limit and therefore need the flexibility to do customization. And at that point you are lost if your toolkit is just a large wrapper that does not give you a handle to the low level part. Just as an example …

Having a canvas is actually pretty simple – it’s just an area where the program is totally in charge of the pixels. The stuff that’s hard for the GUI toolkit is the layout of text and buttons around it, which is where I think that scientific apps have relatively limited requirements, compared to, e.…

[image] tknopp: Are you concerned about the cross platform capabilities as your project should be usable for other users? Frankly speaking I’m mostly concerned to make the project to work on my native (Linux) platform and having cross-platform app is just a convenient add-on. I’m thinking abo…

[image] StefanKarpinski: Most other toolkits are cross-platform but leave much to be desired in aesthetics – i.e. 1 & 3. Many people have tried, but it seems almost impossible to write generic cross-platform GUI code and have it look really good on all platforms.[/quote] I’d say that e.g. wxWid…

a few random thoughts: Current Gtk is rendering everything via Cairo + Pango. Their future plans is to drop Cairo and use a new toolbox with GL/EGL rendering (see halting problem - gsk demystified ). Yes, layout is hard. But the hard part isn’t solving the constraints, it’s formulating the problem. …

[image] gour: I’m just exploring Python vs Julia and not being aware of JuMP, can you explain a bit connection with GUIs? It solves optimization problems, so he’s saying you can use it to optimize widget locations according to some cost function to have it all be done automatically. That woul…

Hardest thing (speaking about hard problems): Find people to work on this. The ratio of users to developers is close to inf. well said. Thats why I really suggest people wanting to write UI try Gtk.jl which is in a pretty usable state. Several members of the Julia community have put quite some e…

I’ve used Gtk.jl quite a bit, and looked at alternative and I think it’s the best option right now. There’s is plenty of issues with it but you can still work around them for the most part (it’s somewhat broken on 0.5 though at the moment). But my problem with Gtk is that it really is very rough o…

Julia for GUI app

General Usage

gour November 20, 2016, 2:15pm 20

I’m just exploring Python vs Julia and not being aware of JuMP, can you explain a bit connection with GUIs?

Topic		Replies	Views
Front ends for Julia codebases? Offtopic	72	11617	June 16, 2020
Anyone crazy enough to develop a pure Julia GUI toolbox? Visualization package , gui	193	17899	July 15, 2025
How to design GUI interfaces in Julia? General Usage gui	68	5415	March 21, 2025
GUI package for a "real-time" control application Visualization package , gui	30	3429	July 25, 2022
Native GUI suggestion for Linux General Usage question	39	3700	February 20, 2020

Julia for GUI app

Related topics