Hi Everybody

I'm interested in developing front-ends and applications that uses as
little memory as possible. These will be aimed at users of low-end spec
PC's.

Does anybody know if GTK and QT widgets use more memory than other GUI
widget libraries?

Thanks in advance

Alza.

Alza wrote:
> Hi Everybody
>
> I'm interested in developing front-ends and applications that uses as
> little memory as possible. These will be aimed at users of low-end spec
> PC's.
>
> Does anybody know if GTK and QT widgets use more memory than other GUI
> widget libraries?

I would say those are the heavy weight GUI's for linux, look at something
lighter like openmotif.


//Aho

J.O. Aho wrote:

> Alza wrote:
>> Hi Everybody
>>
>> I'm interested in developing front-ends and applications that uses as
>> little memory as possible. These will be aimed at users of low-end spec
>> PC's.
>>
>> Does anybody know if GTK and QT widgets use more memory than other GUI
>> widget libraries?
>
> I would say those are the heavy weight GUI's for linux, look at something
> lighter like openmotif.
>
>
> //Aho

How about wxwindows ?

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J.O. Aho wrote:
> Alza wrote:
>
>> Hi Everybody
>>
>> I'm interested in developing front-ends and applications that uses as
>> little memory as possible. These will be aimed at users of low-end
>> spec PC's.
>>
>> Does anybody know if GTK and QT widgets use more memory than other GUI
>> widget libraries?
>
>
> I would say those are the heavy weight GUI's for linux, look at
> something lighter like openmotif.

Or even FLTK ("Fast, Light TookKit": http://www.fltk.org/)

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Alza wrote:
>
>I'm interested in developing front-ends and applications that uses as
>little memory as possible. These will be aimed at users of low-end spec
>PC's.
>
>Does anybody know if GTK and QT widgets use more memory than other GUI
>widget libraries?

Both of them are resource hogs. If you are truly interested in minimal
memory size applications, you need to be looking at alternatives like
Microwindows and NanoX.
--
- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing when Alza wrote:
> I'm interested in developing front-ends and applications that uses
> as little memory as possible. These will be aimed at users of
> low-end spec PC's.
>
> Does anybody know if GTK and QT widgets use more memory than other
> GUI widget libraries?

Apps using them tend not to be terribly small, particularly as there
is plenty of incentive to link in additional GNOME or KDE services.

Tk tends to still be fairly small, and has bindings to plenty of
languages.

FLTK may be, albeit with the cost that it is C++-based, and the
exception-handling stack tends to bloat things...

InterViews is a very mature C++-based GUI system, probably able to
stay small as it predates C++ supporting exceptions...
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Christopher Browne wrote:
> [ ... ]
> FLTK may be [small], albeit with the cost that it is C++-based, and the
> exception-handling stack tends to bloat things...

Do they use exceptions now? The release I have compiles everything
with -fno-exceptions .

Christopher Browne writes:

> Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing when Alza wrote:
>> I'm interested in developing front-ends and applications that uses
>> as little memory as possible. These will be aimed at users of
>> low-end spec PC's.
>>
>> Does anybody know if GTK and QT widgets use more memory than other
>> GUI widget libraries?

There's also ZMW,
, which seems to
compile up to about 165K on this box, which seems pretty good.
Widgets themselves don't allocate any memory. It doesn't look very
pretty, IMHO, and probably lacks themeability and things, but it wins
in being small.

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