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MoAlyousef / cfltk

C Bindings for FLTK
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[question]difference between cfltk and FLTK-C? #204

Closed retsyo closed 3 years ago

retsyo commented 3 years ago

D.J.Peters supplied FLTK- C-1.3.3 for FreeBASIC, which is located on freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=24547&hilit=fltk+c

Actually the lib can be used by other languages which support call functions in dynamic libraries on both windows and linux

so, what is the difference between cfltk and FLTK-C?

thanks

MoAlyousef commented 3 years ago

Hi I downloaded the FLTK-C source code and there doesn't appear to be much difference. FLTK-C appears to require FLTK 1.3.3 (the build fails against FLTK 1.4), like calls to ->class_name() which were long removed, and calls to ->driver() as well. cfltk requires FLTK 1.4 (it would fail against 1.3.3). Calls to decorated_w(), decorated_h() and some dialog functions didn't exist prior to 1.4. Both these issues can be worked around. FLTK-C seems to be more complete as a binding since it provides more widget methods. Which can be eventually added to cfltk (or on a per need basis). cfltk also assumes multi-threaded code, so most calls are wrapped in locks. cfltk also bundles stb_tt to handle custom font loading/usage, and also provides some window transparency setter and getter. Both features can be easily added to FLTK-C.