Short: The Visualize ToolKit Example library Author: David Olofson, AmigaOS 4.0 compile by Spot / Up Rough Uploader: Varthall / Up Rough Type: dev/src Version: 0.1.0 Architecture: ppc-amigaos >= 4.0.5 VisTk - the Visualize ToolKit library ------------------------------------- (Not to be confused with *serious* projects with similar names or acronyms. VisTk used to be called "VTK", but I changed it for this public release to somewhat reduce the risk of confusion.) In short, this is a widget toolkit originally designed for svgalib in 256 color mode. I created it because I needed something fast and simple to integrate simple GUIs with fast real time visualization. Over time, it has evolved a bit, but not much - it's been ported to GGI and SDL, but still supports only 256 colors (needs emulation provided by GGI or SDL, or the "real thing"). AFAIK, it won't build for GGI or svgalib any more - the makefile doesn't check for them, but that's just the beginning. OTOH, who needs that when SDL wraps those and many more targets, adding lightning fast 256 color emulation? Works for me. Either way, I'm not going to spend much more time with this crap. The design is somewhat broken, and the code could use a major overhaul. Don't use it for anything serious, unless you seriously feel like making it "Yet Another Toolkit"! I take no responsibility if you get seriously ill or injured while trying to figure out if you've found a bug or if you just don't understand how VisTk is supposed to work. Instead watch out for ChromeTk, if you're willing to wait for something that 1) is designed and hacked by me ("After seeing THIS!? Yeah, right!" ;-) 2) is designed specifically for flashy GUIs with lots of chrome and high quality rendering in games and multimedia applications. Otherwise, just use FLTK, GTK+, Qt or whatever - those are well tested, solid, high quality software, and are much more appropriate for common tasks than either my VisTk or my upcoming ChromeTk. Still, *if* you decide to play with VisTK, of course, I'll gratefully accept patches - I'm still using VisTK in some of my programs. David Olofson __________________________________________ .________ /_________. | | | A M I G A O S 4 . 0 C O M P I L E B Y | | .____. | | ______ _________.___ . _|___ | | / ___/______/ ._ . /________ : ___/_________ _ _ _ _____._ |/ :_/ ._ _: |/ _| | |/ | | ______| | | | ____ _ _ _ _ ________________| | | |_______________ . .cRb|_____________|e^D. | | | | I am in a shitty economical situation, so if you feel | | that what I do is worth anything, use paypal to donate | | to my email addy, spotATtriadDOTse, thanx! | | | | Spot / Up Rough 2006 | |___________________________________________________________|