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Technical Meetup is being held at Internet Club, IInd Floor, AMI Trust Building, Broadway Enclave, Broadway on 19 Jun 2010, 10:00 AM. This is a 2 hours event.

GUI Programming in Linux (using GCC)

X Window System originated at MIT in 1984. The defacto Library for programming X is XLib. Due to nature of the library (it’s protocol implementation) , it is a fine grained API and is difficult to build today’s GUI. Enter Qt, GTK+/GDK and WxWidgets (all are using XLib in Linux for GUI rendering) for easing the programming burden. GTK+ Library was build for the GIMP and is the underlying library behind the GNOME desktop. The Qt (from Nokia [after Trolltech acquisition]) Library is used by the KDE. WxWidgets is one of the most popular GUI programming library in the world.

The topics to be covered include…

• GUI programming with Xlib (C)
• GUI programming with GTK+/GDK (C)
• GUI programming with Qt (C++)
• GUI programming with WxWidgets (C++)

The emphasis will be on how you can use GCC to compile and build applications. Tools like make and qmake (for qt) and wx-config (shell script) will be used for the demo.

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