Author: David Blackman
Date: 18:59:50 07/15/99
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If you want a ready made gui for your program, get Xboard. You can talk to it in text mode on standard input/ standard output. If you really want to build your own chess gui, use one of the easy toolkits such as Tk, Gtk, or Qt. (Tk works on MS Windows as well, which is nice if you want to port your code later. I think the others might also.) Don't try to talk directly to X, or even worse, the kernel to do gui stuff. I don't know anyone who uses a "user-friendly" IDE to write code on Linux. Such things are rumoured to exist, but not work as well as the MS Windows ones. Given how much trouble the programmers here are having with MS Windows based IDEs, that doesn't sound good. BTW, sometimes you can get a beep by writing a control-G (ascii 7) to standard output. But don't do that if your chosen gui toolkit has a beep function.
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