Hi all,

Perhaps a stupid question. Some time ago, I received a rpi zeroW as a gift, but as I did not have any use for ii I passed it to somebody else in our electronics-group. Now, that person has had a +30 year carreer as self-taught programmer -starting out with BASIC on DOS machines- so he showed of some of his old BASIC applications in dosbox on the pi.

So far so good, but he had an interesting question: Years ago, I wrote a library in BASIC for screen / window applications in DOS. (you know, pop-up text-windows and so on). How do I do that on linux (in C)?

As I myself only do 'backend' coding (so no UI), I have to admit I did not have any answer to that.

So, question, For somebody who has mostly coded in BASIC (first DOS and later Visual Basic) and now switched to C and python, what is the best / most easy tool to write a basic UI application with window-function on linux/unix. I know there exist things like QT and ncurses, but I never used these, so I have no idea.

Any advice?

Kr.

  • Destide@feddit.uk
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    3 months ago

    FOr me the quickest and basic way would be python and tkinter or pyqt. Failing that, push it to a web app with something like Flask or React

  • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
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    3 months ago

    Both GTK and Qt have good Python bindings.

    GTK example: https://github.com/Taiko2k/GTK4PythonTutorial

    There's also PyQt but it looks more complicated and I couldn't find as nice and straightforward of an example as GTK but I found this: https://realpython.com/qt-designer-python/

    If you want to go to C, GTK works about the same way. If you want C++, Qt is pretty good there.

    Otherwise you can go SDL and just put whatever pixels you want on the screen on your own.

  • Matt@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    I'd recommend egui, though you have to use Rust for it. (learning it should be easy, considering the fact that you have background in C).