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Re: JUCE (widgets and library) GNU Public Licence [message #15503 is a reply to message #7405]

Sun, 27 April 2008 00:18

cdoty
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Registered: April 2008
Location: Houston, TX

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Oooh pretty! It's got a lot of eye candy. It seems to be aimed more at a home user application, versus a business application for U++.

Here's my quick summary:

Pros:
1) Allows the use of the IDE you are comfortable with. VC6, VC8, or Codeblocks (Under Windows, I didn't try Linux).

2) Compiles cleanly under VC6, after a few small non-code changes (See below). Sorry, I'm a diehard VC6 user!

3) Has some unique controls (or it's pretty!):
a) The circular slider is pretty impressive.
b) The ability to have the tabs on the top, bottom, or either side is nice.
c) The resizable toolbar is nice.
d) Has a control that can be 'dragged onto the desktop'

Cons:
1) The licensing fee is expensive.

2) It doesn't compile cleanly on install (on Windows). The Juce_config.h file needs to be changed to not use the ASIO and Quicktime libraries. And, you need the Platform SDK. The March 2003 one worked fine. This is the last version that works with VC6.

3) The demo source code feels a lot more like standard Win32 style programming wrapped in C++, compared to U++.

I wonder if an application written using Juce would be less threating to a non-computer user than a U++ style program?

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