For UNIX (or at least POSIX) systems, have a look at wordexp: #include <iostream> #include <wordexp.h> using namespace std; int main() { wordexp_t p; char** w; wordexp( “$HOME/bin”, &p, 0 ); w = p.we_wordv; for (size_t i=0; i<p.we_wordc;i++ ) cout << w[i] << endl; wordfree( &p ); return 0; } It seems it will even … Read more
I won’t talk about FLTK as I don’t know it. wxWidgets uses the native toolkit of the platform, (GTK on Linux, Win32 GUI API on Windows, Cocoa on MacOS X). GTK uses a theming API to fake the look and feel of the platform (custom theming engine on GTK2, CSS-based engine on GTK3). Qt uses … Read more
In my obviously biased opinion, the advantages of wxWidgets are: Native widgets (as far as possible) guarantee native look and feel Standard C++ only, no special preprocessor/extensions Possible to link statically to closed source applications without buying a commercial licence Also, whether it’s an advantage or a disadvantage is up to you to decide, but … Read more
Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install python-wxtools
Even though this thread is old but gold. QCustomPlot is very recommendable as well to complement this list.