Comments on: EDE Login Manager

By: pixotec

pixotec — Mon, 21 May 2007 07:19:44 +0000

ok, found it here: http://bazaar.mikeasoft.com/

By: pixotec

pixotec — Sat, 19 May 2007 19:30:27 +0000

hi mike,

after STX linux dropped the EDE way of life (sadly…) I’m interested in the EDE login manager. where to download? or email me the tar.gz?

By: Vedran

Vedran — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 19:20:42 +0000

This looks beautiful exactly what we need for EDE2…

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 18:54:08 +0000

I've now sorted out the FLTK2 package in the STX repositories; so if you want to start doing C++ development just add SOURCE=http://stx.mikeasoft.com to your /etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc file, run slapt-get --update followed by slapt-get --install fltk2. You can then use fluid2 to give you a GUI editor and IDE.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 13:24:14 +0000

For general applications I’d probably recommend using Python and PyFLTK (these are what the STX Control Centre and LiveCD Installer are written with). The latest PyFLTK package can be obtained from: http://stx.mikeasoft.com/ (a slightly older version is already included with STX). The only tutorials I’m aware of for PyFLTK are the ones I’ve been writing available from: http://junk.mikeasoft.com/pyfltkmanual.pdf

As for actual EDE development, things are in a bit of a transitionary stage at the moment as 1.x is no longer receiving much new work while people focus on the 2.0 version. EDE 1.0 uses EFLTK which is an old fork from FLTK 2.0; while EDE 2.0 is based on the latest FLTK 2.0 code. There is an FLTK 2 package in the STX development repository which includes the library, the development headers and the FLUID GUI designer/IDE, but you can’t currently compile programs against it due to a problem with incompatibilities between the version of libpng it was compiled against and the version on STX. I’ll try and get that sorted out soon though.

Extra FLTK documentation can be found at: http://fltk.org/documentation.php

Hope this helps .

By: pixotec

pixotec — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 13:03:06 +0000

hi michael,

it seems that you are the programming superman for everything related to EDE in conjunction with STX.
I’m a java developer, but would like to start helping by learning FLTK and EDE programming. Could you please give me some starting tipps?

- suitable IDE
- compiler needed (g++?)
- libraries to install
- kick off tutorials, code to look at…

any hints welcome