forum for Motif, XLib, etc. programming enthusiasts?

[Alan Corey]

Yes, I've played in Glade a little, wasn't crazy about it.  And GTK3
looks awful, just the amount of text for a hello world program.

I wanted to use Motif but support for it is vanishing it seems.
Athena, I hate the scrollbars.  What I want to work at is an SDR
(Software Defined Radio) program so the more efficiently it can update
the spectrum area the better.  It's almost like video, people use 2 -
30 frames per second, meanwhile getting data in over USB and doing an
FFT on it, plus demodulating in different threads.  In real time.

I'm not seeing a widget in GTK that draws that efficiently.  QT can do
it, or Java Swing, or even just plain old bare XLIB, except I wanted
some widgets.  I was hoping to use a Motif DrawingArea.  There isn't
room for a lot of bloat between the code and the screen.  XDrawLine is
fast enough.

There's a qtcsdr https://github.com/ha7ilm/qtcsdr/archive/master.zip
which isn't bad as far as it goes, written with QT.  It runs at 50%
CPU or so on a Raspberry Pi 3.  I'd add a button to turn off screen
updates so it could run more in the background.  Just playing with
ideas at this point.

On 10/24/17, Hi-Angel <hiangel999 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am a bit confused if you're talking of modern toolkits, or older
> ones, or in general. If in general, than this is untrue — QtCreator
> allows you to design GUI pretty much like Borland Delphi or Visual
> Studio. For GTK alike thing is Glade — it's not so good as "design"
> tab in QtCreator by virtue of being a stand alone utility, but
> otherwise it works in alike fashion.
>
> On 24 October 2017 at 23:25, Alan Corey <alan01346 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hmm, thank you but http://motif.ics.com/forum is now read-only.  As is
>> http://www.motifdeveloper.com/.  I wanted to use C, not Lua.
>>
>> Maybe I'll have to bite the bullet and learn QT.  I have this theory
>> that part of the reason there's so little modern software for Unix in
>> general is because there aren't tools like Borland Delphi to write it
>> with.  Yes, I've tried Lazarus and thought it was a hodgepodge of
>> patches with the documentation a worse hodgepodge.  I have little
>> problem writing command line stuff but making any GUI work is like a
>> holy grail.  Maybe Java Swing then it's portable.  I was enjoying the
>> retro aspect though.
>>
>> On 10/24/17, Matthieu Herrb <matthieu at herrb.eu> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 12:45:27PM -0400, Alan Corey wrote:
>>>> I like playing around with the old stuff, because to me it seems
>>>> simpler and more efficient than GTK3 or QT.  When it works.  I'm still
>>>> trying to wrap my brain around mapping, managing, realizing widgets in
>>>> the right order.
>>>>
>>>> I started out, put a notebook into a window, then a rowcol onto a page
>>>> of it, then a drawing area in the top of that.  When I try to draw to
>>>> it whatever I draw is clipped to about the top 10 pixels.  Why?  That
>>>> sort of stuff.  Yes, I've got copies of vol6a, etc, the original
>>>> O'Reily books.  If I spent a couple years reading I could probably
>>>> find the answer but I'd forget my question.  Is there a forum of Motif
>>>> freaks?
>>>>
>>>
>>> The motif zone is still online : http://motif.ics.com/
>>> and you may want to have a look at https://github.com/arcapos/luamotif
>>> --
>>> Matthieu Herrb
>>>
>>
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