Thank you very much BlueLines, both for your informative, and speedy response.

I'm not sure if I really want to dig into the grime that is called GUI's. (no matter how manly that would be :) ).

I really want to take an approach that would be something like GLADE (or at least what I know of what GLADE is). I don't mean I necessarily want a drag and drop GUI contruction kit (ala VB-sickness). Rather, I just don't want to be required to do all the low level grunt work unless I get backed into a corner without a stick.

I don't mind having to deal with somethings, but I do not intend on making this program a drag and drop GUI jukebox where you can take your GNOME/KDE aware filebrowser program and throw mp3s at mine!

(in fact, I'm not really enthusiastic about using GUI unless it does make my life simpler (as a programmer) or makes the UI much much much more powerful -- I'm quite happy with a TUI or even a command line-ish interface).

But again, I would like to stress my gratitude for this response, and I am going to go look at the GTK+ site right now!

Cheers and Thanks,
Gryn

In reply to The Sweat and Grime of GUI by gryng
in thread Where oh where to start (looking) by gryng

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