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 …

Count me in. I have extended Matlab GUI experience but only minor on Julia.

[image] sdanisch: A big thing that I want to do next is to grab all the Julia devs involved in graphics and GUIs and try to design a more coherent API for interactions and GUIs. Probably not restricted to GLVisualize. Big vision! It would make a good topic in the Visualization category.

I don’t want to sound negative on the great work on GLVizualize but I think their is still a distinction between this work and a classical UI framework. Implementing something like Mirone should be pretty doable with Gtk.jl right now. All the menus and the toolbar can be done in a UI designer and t…

I see what you mean (and partially agree) but I have years of work in Mirone (Open Hub estimates 49 :astonished:) and from what I have read GTK is not particular fast in rendering big files and lots of vector elements. But above all, as I mentioned earlier, I fear that it is a dying technology. Off …

[image] tknopp: I don’t want to sound negative on the great work on GLVizualize but I think their is still a distinction between this work and a classical UI framework. No worries :wink: Can you elaborate on this?

Yes porting such a big project is quite certainly much too much effort. But this holds true for any UI framework. I don’t see why Gtk should be slow in rendering big images. This all goes through Cairo and if this is not fast enough (which I doubt given that you program Mirone in Matlab) one could …

For instance: A classical UI framework allows to open different windows (controlled by the window manager). It has predefined dialogs (open file / save file), scrollbars, and so on. It this really the direction where you are heading with GLVizualize?

[image] tknopp: I don’t see why Gtk should be slow in rendering big images. This all goes through Cairo and if this is not fast enough (which I doubt given that you program Mirone in Matlab) … I was thinking more into vector renderings but let me tell you guys a secret. By not following TMW a…

[image] tknopp: I don’t want to sound negative on the great work on GLVizualize but I think their is still a distinction between this work and a classical UI framework. It is possible to combine both. QML.jl exposes a component that can be used as a GLVisualize screen, so you could combine an…

I do think so. In my experience, an interactive plotting libraries will need these anyways, so it’s not that far stretched. I’ve started with GLVisualize + Julia to minimize the 2 language problem, so it would be all for naught if you need a C/C++ library just for scrollbars :stuck_out_tongue: As I…

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