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本文提供了一组小部件工具包(也称为GUI框架),它们用于构造程序的图形用户界面(GUI),根据程序与各种操作系统的关系进行组织。

Low-level widget toolkits

Integrated in the operating system

  • OS X uses Cocoa. Mac OS9 and OS X use Carbon for 32-bit applications.
  • The Windows API used in Microsoft Windows. Microsoft had the graphics functions integrated in the kernel until 2006[1]
  • The Haiku operating system uses an extended and modernised version of the Be API that was used by its spiritual predecessor BeOS. Haiku Inc. is expected to drop binary and source compatibility with the BeOS at some point in the future, which will result in its own Haiku API.

As a separate layer on top of the operating system

  • The X Window System contains primitive building blocks, called Xt or "Intrinsics", but they are mostly only used by older toolkits such as: OLITMotif and Xaw. Most contemporary toolkits, such as GTK+ or Qt, bypass them and use Xlib or XCB directly.
  • The Amiga OS Intuition was formerly present in the Amiga Kickstart ROM and integrated itself with a medium-high level widget library which invoked the Workbench Amiga native GUI. Since Amiga OS 2.0, Intuition.library became disk based and object oriented. Also Workbench.library and Icon.library became disk based, and could be replaced with similar third-party solutions.
  • Since 2005, Microsoft has taken the graphics system out of Windows' kernel.[2]

High-level widget toolkits

Widget toolkit comparison table
Toolkit name Windows OS X Unix-like Programming language License
Qt Yes Yes Yes C++ LGPL, commercial
MFC Yes No No C++ Proprietary
OWL (superseded by VCL) Yes No No C++ (Borland C++) Proprietary
VCL (supersedes OWL) Yes No No Object Pascal (Delphi) Proprietary
WTL Yes No No C++ Microsoft Public License
LCL Yes Yes Yes Object Pascal (Free Pascal) LGPL
LessTif No No Yes C LGPL
GTK Yes Yes Yes C LGPL
FLTK Yes Yes Yes C++ LGPL
Fox toolkit Yes No Yes C++ LGPL
Nana C++ Yes No Yes C++ Boost license
wxWidgets Yes Yes Yes C++ WxWindows license
TnFOX Yes Yes Yes C++ LGPL
Ultimate++ Yes No Yes C++ BSD
Rogue Wave Views Yes No Yes C++ proprietary
CEGUI Yes Yes Yes C++ MIT
IUP Yes No Yes C MIT
Shoes (GUI toolkit) cross-platform Ruby MIT
AWT cross-platform Java  
Swing cross-platform Java  
Pivot (WTK) cross-platform Java Apache License
GNUstep Yes Yes Yes Objective-C LGPL
Juce Yes Yes Yes C++ GPL, commercial
Cocoa No Yes No Objective-C Proprietary
Elementary Yes Yes Yes C LGPLBSD
Tk Yes Yes Yes C BSD
Kivy cross-platform Python MIT

OS dependent

On Amiga

  • BOOPSI (Basic Object Oriented Programming System for Intuition) was introduced with OS 2.0 and enhanced Intuition with a system of classes in which every class represents a single widget or describes an interface event. This led to an evolution in which third-party developers each realised their own personal systems of classes.
  • MUI: object-oriented GUI toolkit and the official toolkit for MorphOS.
  • ReAction: object-oriented GUI toolkit and the official toolkit for AmigaOS.
  • Zune (GUI toolkit) is an open source clone of MUI and the official toolkit for AROS.

On Macintosh

On Microsoft Windows

On Unix, under the X Window System

Note that the X Window System was originally primarily for Unix-like operating systems, but it now runs on Microsoft Windows as well using, for example, Cygwin, so some or all of these toolkits can also be used under Windows.

Cross-platform

Based on C (including bindings to other languages)

  • Elementaryopen source (LGPL), a part of the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries, a fast, stable, and scalable library that can be used to create both rich and fast applications that can be used on anything from every day desktop computers to small PDA's and set-top boxes.
  • GTK+open source (LGPL), primarily for the X Window System, ported to and emulated under other platforms; used in the GNOMERoxLXDE and Xfce desktop environments. The Windows port has support for native widgets.
  • IUPopen source (MIT), a minimalist GUI toolkit in ANSI C for Windows, UNIX and Linux.
  • Tkopen source (BSD-style), a widget set accessed from Tcl and other high-level script languages (interfaced in Python as Tkinter).
  • XForms, the Forms Library for X
  • XVT, Extensible Virtual Toolkit

Based on C++ (including bindings to other languages)

Based on OpenGL

  • Clutter (LGPL) (in C) is an open source software library for creating fast, visually rich and animated graphical user interfaces.

Based on Flash

  • Adobe Flash allows creating widgets running in most web browsers and in several mobile phones.
  • Adobe Flex provides high-level widgets for building web user interfaces. Flash widgets can be used in Flex.
  • Flash and Flex widgets will run without a web browser in the Adobe AIR runtime environment.

Based on XML

Based on JavaScript

Main article: JavaScript library

General

RIAs

Full-stack framework

Resource-based

No longer developed

Based on SVG

  • Raphaël is a JavaScript toolkit for SVG interfaces and animations

Based on .NET

  • Gtk#, C# wrappers around the underlying GTK+ and GNOME libraries, written in C and available on Linux, MacOS and Windows.
  • Windows Forms. There is an original Microsoft's implementation that is a wrapper around the Windows API and runs on windows, and Mono's alternative implementation that is cross platform.

Based on Java

  • The Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) is Sun Microsystems' original widget toolkit for Java applications. It typically uses another toolkit on each platform on which it runs.
  • Swing is a richer widget toolkit supported since J2SE 1.2 as a replacement for AWT widgets. Swing is a lightweight toolkit, meaning it does not rely on native widgets.
  • Apache Pivot is an open-source platform for building rich web applications in Java or any JVM-compatible language, and relies on the WTK widget toolkit.
  • JavaFX and FXML.
  • The Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) is a native widget toolkit for Java that was developed as part of the Eclipse project. SWT uses a standard toolkit for the running platform (such as the Windows API, OS X Cocoa, or GTK+) underneath.
  • Qt Jambi, the official Java binding to Qt from Trolltech. The commercial support and development has stopped[5]

Based on Object Pascal

  • IP Pascal uses a graphics library built on top of standard language constructs. Also unusual for being a procedural toolkit that is cross-platform (no callbacks or other tricks), and is completely upward compatible with standard serial input and output paradigms. Completely standard programs with serial output can be run and extended with graphical constructs.
  • Lazarus LCL (for PascalObject Pascal and Delphi via Free Pascal compiler), a class library wrapping GTK+ 1.2, Gtk+ 2.x and the Windows API (Carbon, Windows CE and Qt4 support are all in development).
  • fpGUI is created with the Free Pascal compiler. It doesn't rely on any large 3rdParty libraries and currently runs on Linux, Windows, Windows CE, and Mac (via X11). A Carbon (OS X) port is underway.
  • CLX (Component Library for Cross-platform), used with Borland's DelphiC++ Builder, and Kylix, for producing cross-platform applications. It is based on Qt, wrapped in such a way that its programming interface is similar to that of the VCL toolkit.

Based on Objective-C

Based on Ruby

Not yet categorised

Comparison of widget toolkits

Toolkit Initial release Latest release Main language Bindings Tools License Pros Cons Back-end
XawAthena 1983   C            
AWT 1995   Java       portable    
CEGUI December 2004 0.8.7 (April 28, 2016; 3 years ago) [±][6] C++ Python,[7] Lua (using tolua++)[8] CEED[9] MIT License Free license, fast, cross-platform, portable, free GUI editing tool    
Clutter 2006   C Perl, Python, C#, C++, Vala, Ruby   LGPL GTK+ and WebKit embedding    
Elementary 2007 (EFL: 2001) 2016 C JavaScript, Python, Vala, C++ editje, edje LGPL Portable, stable, fast, finger-friendly    
FLTK 1998 2019 C++ Python (pyFLTK), Perl (FLTK.pm), Ruby (Ruby/FLTK), Tcl (Tcl Fltk), Guile (guile-fltk), Eiffel (IFLTK) FLUID (Fast Light UI Designer) LGPL (with an exception that allows static linking) fast, small enough to static link limited widget selection  
FOX 1997   C++ Ruby (FXRuby), Python (FXPy), Eiffel (EiffelFox)     consistent across platforms non-native look and feel  
GLUI     C++            
GNUstep 1994 2017 Objective-C Java, Ruby, Scheme Gorm (computing) GPL for the apps, LGPL for the libs Portable, free license Native on macOS (with Cocoa) X11Win32Wayland
GTK+ 1997 3.24.4[10] (January 21, 2019; 7 months ago) [±] C C++ (gtkmm), Perl (Gtk2-perl), Ruby (ruby-gtk2), Python (PyGTK), Haskell (Gtk2Hs), Java (java-gnome) (not available for Microsoft Windows), C# (Gtk#), PHP (PHP-GTK), Ada (GTKAda), D (gtkD), FreeBasic (GladeToBac), Go (go-gtk), OCaml (lablgtk), JavaScript (GjsSeed), Fortran (gtk-fortran), Lua (lua-lgi), R (RGtk2) and others via GTK-server Glade LGPL Portable, free license Partly native only.[11][12]  
IUP 1992 2017[13] C Lua (IupLua)[14] LEDC: a compiler for LED MIT Portable, lightweight, use the native API, native look&feel, free licence Non‑Unicode (only plain ASCII) [15]  
MotifLesstif 1980s   C   BX Pro        
Nana C++ 2007 1.2.2 (December 8, 2015; 3 years ago) [±][16] C++   VisualStudio, Dev-C++, Code::Blocks, GCC   portable, lightweight, modern C++ style    
Qt 1991 5.13.1[17] (5 September 2019; 15 days ago) [±] C++ Ruby (QtRuby), Python (PyQtPySidePythonQt), Ada (QtAda), c# ( Qyoto), Java (Qt Jambi), Pascal ( FreePascal Qt4 ), Perl (Perl Qt4), PHP(PHP-Qt), Haskell (Qt Haskell), Lua (lqtQtLua), Dao ( DaoQt), Tcl ( qtcl ), Common Lisp (CommonQt), D (QtD), Harbour (hbqt) Qt Designer, Qt Creator GPLLGPL.[18] Portable, rich widget set, GUI builder, free license, stable API Partially native only.[19][20][21]  
Shoes (GUI toolkit) 2007 2010 Ruby     MIT license/Open source Simplicity, ease of use    
SWT     Java D (DWT) Eclipse   portable    
Swing 1996   Java   Eclipse, NetBeans GPL for OpenJDK Portable (Java), advanced widgets, GUI builders    
Tk 1991 2015 C, Tcl Ruby (RubyTk), Python (Tkinter), Perl (Perl/Tk), Ada (TASH), Common Lisp (LTk), Erlang (etk), ... |   BSD very portable, many language bindings    
Ultimate++ 2004   C++   TheIDE BSD portable, NTL, free license    
Rogue Wave Views 1993 2014 (5.8) C++   ivfstudio proprietary portable (Windows, Unix-like), good support commercial  
VCF     C++     BSD free license    
Windows Forms     CLI languages CLI languages Expression, Visual Studio     portability issues, no MVC  
WPFXAMLSilverlight 2007   CLI languages CLI languages Expression, Visual Studio     Portability issues  
MFCWinAPI 1992   C++   Visual Studio     not portable (but Wine implements it for X Window)  
ATLWTL 2004   C++   Visual Studio     not portable  
wxWidgets 1992 3.1.2 (10 December 2018; 9 months ago) [±][22] C++ C++ (native), Ruby (wxRuby), Python (wxPython), Perl (wxPerl), Java (wxJavajwx!), Lua (wxLua), Tcl(wxTCL), JavaScript (GLUEscript), Smalltalk (wxSqueak), Erlang (wxErlang), Haskell (wxHaskell), C (wxC), D (wxD), .NET Framework (wxNet), Common Lisp (wxCL), Basic (wxBasic), BlitzMax (wxMax), Euphoria (wxEuphoria), Ada (wxAda), Pike (wxPike) VisualWx, Boa Constructor, PythonCard, Spe, XRCed, wxGladewxFormBuilder, DialogBlocks ($), wxDesigner ($) wxWindows License Portable, rich widget set, free licence, semantic similarities to MFC make migration easy.    
XUL     XML, JavaScript       portable    
Juce 2004   C++   Jucer GPL, commercial Cross-platform, with additional audio plug-in wrapping tools (VSTRTASAAX etc.)    
XVT 1989 2010 C and C++   Design for C and architect for C++ Proprietary Cross-platform, rich widget set, C and C++ GUI builders, very stable    
CLX     C++            
VCL     Delphi            
Toolkit Initial release Latest release Main language Bindings Tools License Pros Cons Back-end

See also

 

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