Gtk Vs Qt

[jesperht]

So im thinking about writing a simple GUI CD collection program to keep track of my programs, however im kinda stuck on which i should choose to accomplish the task...

Perl-GTK (i hate tk/tcl :P)
or
C++/QT (using QT designer i guess...).

I know perl quite well, and i know the c++ basics...but which one would be best for the task? (easier/faster?)

Please post your answer along with a reason...THANKS! :)

[bskahan]

why not C-gtk?

[Dun'kalis]

Well, do you really need a GUI? If you don't, I really don't see why you couldn't code it in any language.

Qt is very well-designed and easy to use, but make sure you read all the Qt documentation and understand how Qt works.

There is a binding for GTK called GTKmm, and its the C++ bindings.

Also, you may want to look into wxWindows, which is toolkit independent. It also has Python bindings (wxPython).

But, if you really don't require much, Perl should work fine.

[jesperht]

-The reason i mentioned perltk and c++QT are because those are the ones i have knowledge of...though i am open for anything.

-I would really like a GUI.

[bskahan]

If your more familiar with perl then perl-gtk will probably be the easiest. language considerations aside, however, qt works natively on unix, windows, and osx, I don't think GTK is up to date on non linux platforms (haveing read a pretty negative review of it on solaris). So if you want portability you might want to consider that.

I have to second the python suggestion, its a very powerful language thats easy to learn. Its more appropriate for gui programming than perl; perl has other strengths.