About:
FLTK (pronounced "fulltick") is a cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit for UNIX/Linux (X11), Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X. It provides modern GUI functionality without the bloat, and supports 3D graphics via OpenGL and its built-in GLUT emulation. FLTK is designed to be small and modular enough to be statically linked, and also works fine as a shared library. It also includes an excellent UI builder called FLUID that can be used to create applications in minutes.

Author:
Michael Sweet [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.64/10.00 (12 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.fltk.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://www.fltk.org/software.php
Tar/BZ2:
http://www.fltk.org/software.php
Zip:
http://www.fltk.org/software.php
Changelog:
http://www.fltk.org/articles.php

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		MacOS X, Other Environment, Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications
[Intended Audience]		Developers
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
[Operating System]		MacOS X, Microsoft :: Windows, OS/2, Other OS, POSIX, Unix
[Programming Language]		C++
[Topic]		Software Development :: Libraries, Software Development :: Widget Sets

Dependencies: [change]
libjpeg (recommended)
libpng (recommended)
zlib (recommended)
HTMLDOC (optional)
Mesa (optional)
[download links]

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.1.9	28-Jun-2008	GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
1.1.9	Minor bugfixes	28-Jun-2008 09:19
1.1.8	Major bugfixes	27-Mar-2008 20:48
1.1.7	Minor bugfixes	18-Jan-2006 06:09
1.1.6	Major bugfixes	13-Dec-2004 09:15
1.1.5	Minor bugfixes	19-Oct-2004 22:24
1.1.5 RC2	Major feature enhancements	19-Sep-2004 12:31
1.1.4	Minor bugfixes	09-Sep-2003 00:20
1.14 RC1	Major feature enhancements	27-Jul-2003 11:07
1.1.3	Minor bugfixes	13-Feb-2003 22:47
1.1.2	Minor bugfixes	25-Nov-2002 18:10

 Articles referencing this project

• GUI Toolkits for The X Window System
  by Leslie Polzer , in Category Reviews
  Sun, Jul 27th 2003 00:00
  

 Comments

[»] I think it's time for 2.0 version Mike...
by Dejan Lekic - Nov 25th 2002 12:13:33

I am getting tired of 1.x branch. There is FLTK v2.0 for SEVERAL YEARS! Mike, Bill, please let's start working on that! Pleaseeee!

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[»] Veri NICE
by Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz - Aug 23rd 2001 14:34:18

It's a very nice GUI API Interface, much better than GTK I think. Documentation shourld be a better explan on EVENTs and other stuf.

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[»] Installation of FLTK
by Lars30 - Jun 30th 2000 03:11:53

Make sure you have the Mesa Development source available. glx.h needs to be around or the source won't compile.

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[»] the documentation on the drawing functions
by fratermisc - Dec 31st 1999 11:38:07

Documentation on the drawing functions (other than the GL widget which is very nicely explained in a batch of source code) is rather obscure in my opinion. The toolkit itself is a very good one and deserves to be absorbed in to wide use. Much better than GTK for rapidity of simple app development. As for complex apps I wouldn't know... yet.

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