Re: Some further questions
On 2007-01-24 13:37 +0800, Jarod Wang wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I am not sure whether following questions on embedded
> GUI are off-topic here in this list, but they relly
> have confused me for a long time:
Not entirely, but they are not really embedded-specific.
> AFASIK, there are many hot words in the field of
> embedded GUI, such as: framebuffer, X Window,
> DirectFB, SDL, QT/Embedded, GTK+. They really made me
> confused.
>
> In my view, "framebuffer" is a kind of Linux device
> driver(I can find a charater device node /dev/fb0 on
> my i386 box); And "X Window", "DirectFB" and "SDL"
> seems resides on the same layer - they both provide
> low level mechanism to access graphics subsystem and
> user interaction. "GTK+" and "QT/Embedded" are widget
> toolkits(libraries).
That's about right, yes. Also see FLTK, PicoGUI and probably a load of
others.
Wookey
--
Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679
work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://wookware.org/
Reply to: