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Hi,
I want to make a chat application on linux. I have Fedora 11 installed on my machine. What I thought I will be using sockets and some other communication ...
- 08-19-2009 #1Just Joined!
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UI Chat client on Linux?
Hi,
I want to make a chat application on linux. I have Fedora 11 installed on my machine. What I thought I will be using sockets and some other communication mechanism for message transfer. It is OK if one runs the application through command line. But I want to add UI features what we see in gtalk chat window.
I don't have programming experience in UI development on linux, but I know c/c++/linux system programming well.
Please tell me, how can the UI part can be developped on linux..which library can I use for that..any good source/links will be helpful for me as a start up..plz do provide
Thanks,
sk
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Qt or GTK+ would be your best bet.
C++ GUI programming with Qt 4 - Google Books
https://qt.nokia.com/products
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- 08-19-2009 #3forum.guy
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Welcome to the forums!
Xchat is one of the most popular chat clients for Linux and it is open source, so you should be able to download and examine its source code to give you some ideas on how to go about building your own.
Hope you have great success with your project.oz
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