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From: Peter Berdeklis <peter AT atmosp DOT physics DOT utoronto DOT ca>
Subject: Re: Any good GUI toolkit for DJGPP? 
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On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Michal Mertl wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Mar 1997, Gautam N. Lad wrote:
> > >Hi all.
> > >I'm looking for a GUI toolkit for DJGPP to build a simple image
> > >browsing tool.
> > >I would *love*  to build this program for Linux/svgalib too (it would
> > >be great to get it run in the X-Window environment).
> > >Does anybody know a simple toolkit for DJGPP (and possibly Linux) ?
> > 
> > There are a few you can try.  One is The-Windowing-System (I think that's it's 
> > official name), then there's S.W.O.R.D. and JP-TUI.  They can be found in the
> > Tool-Kit section of the DJGPP archives.  There might be more.
> > Check out: ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2tk/
>
> I think you coud also try allegro (found at any simtelnet in
> msdos/gnu/djgpp/v2tk in file alleg??.zip) which has very easy to use GUI
> and also very good and fast graphics. The library is primarily designed
> for writing games.

Although Allegro is great, it is also very DOS/PC specific and very 
unportable.  If the original poster wants to port to Linux X Windows he 
should definitely stay away from Allegro.

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Peter Berdeklis
Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Toronto