Fortran Front-End

[Mike Corbeil]

Martin v. Loewis wrote:

> > I'm a university student.  I have been assigned a project next year
> > to develop a GUI for a fortran program, and also refine the fortran
> > programme.  The requirements are: it must be portable to windows, but
> > it is okay for me to develop it on Linux.
> >
> > Is there a tool for building GUI's on Linux for a fortran source
> > programme, which will also port to windows?
>
> If you develop with gcc, you can easily combine C and Fortran
> code. Furthermore, if you use Tk as the user interface, the user
> interface will run on Linux and Windows; Tk also allows the
> integration of C code.

This may be slightly off topic for this mailing list, however am wondering
about qt or Qt, as opposed to Tk.  The latter was ported to MS OSs a few
or more years ago, I believe, but there's also Qt, now, and I believe that
it has been ported to MS OSs, and it ties in with C or C++; if only C++
from the direct approach, then indirectly supporting C (to some extent
anyway), and it may posssibly also support Objective-C.

Would Qt work for this and if yes, then which is better, Tk or Qt, and
why?  I don't mean to be pushy.

I haven't had the time to be able to make such comparisons, but believe
that in both cases, FORTRAN would not be directly linkable to the gui,
needing to go through C as the intermediary.

Maybe there's seed in this for some new technology or tech ideas, perhaps
along the line of placing more focus or emphasis on portability and or
"connectivity".  There's plenty of FORTRAN code in the overall base of
existing code, actively being used; therefore, ..., maybe.

On the other hand, is Tk closer to GNU than Qt, making Qt less desirable
by the GNU and therefore GCC community?

Correct any errors I made in this presentation, that is, if there are any
and you wish to comment on them.

Comments?

mike