[Insight-users] Need advice on choosing a GUI framework

[Pierre Fillard]

Hi,

We faced the same concerns at some point and chose to switch to 
wxWidgets. The main reason is because it has the native look&feel on any 
system (or at least successfully tested on win32, linux and MacOSX), 
which is not the case of FLTK (as far as I know). It has a nice VTK 
interface (http://wxvtk.sourceforge.net) that we integrated into our own 
softwares. If you're looking to some medical image processing widgets 
using wxWidgets, you can look at our set of extension classes to VTK 
that includes lots of wx-based widgets for various purposes, like DICOM 
importation, image visualization, etc:

https://gforge.inria.fr/projects/vtkinria3d/

There is also a submission describing the library in the insight-journal:
http://insight-journal.org/dspace/handle/1926/559

Some other nice GUI framework includes also KWWidgets from kitware. It 
is just a matter of taste actually (although KWWidgets is using tcl/tk 
and is scriptable, it can be a plus).

I am not sure about the future of wxWidgets for medical applications. 
However, it seems to me as the closest cross-platform GUI library to Qt 
with a BSD-like license.

Pierre Fillard,
INRIA - Asclepios, France.

Maarten Nieber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to know opinions on which GUI framework will likely have 
> the broadest support from the medical image processing community.
> At the moment, we are using Qt, but since we want to get rid of the Qt 
> license, we are contemplating FLTK and wxWidgets.
> Of course, the design quality and ease-of-use of these two libraries 
> is important, but equally important to us is the (future) availability 
> of medical image processing widgets for these GUI frameworks.
>
> If you have an idea of which library will have more support, I would 
> appreciate your opinion.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Maarten Nieber
> Computational Imaging Laboratory,
> Pompeu Fabra University,
> Barcelona, Spain.
>
>
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