Programming Throwdown Episode 167

167: Desktop User Interfaces

167: Desktop User Interfaces167: Desktop User Interfaces

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Programming Throwdown Episode 167

October 23, 2023 Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci View the website

Intro topic: Jogging Metrics

News/Links:

Book of the Show

Patrick:
- Math Games with Bad Drawings by Ben Orlin
- https://amzn.to/48qlg9A
Jason:
- The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates
- https://amzn.to/3LChBff

Tool of the Show

Topic: Desktop user interfaces

What is a user interface?
Web and Mobile UI toolkits
Desktop options
- Qt
  - Cross platform, custom UI elements
  - Qt creator, code generator
- WxWidgets
  - Cross platform, uses native UI elements
  - WxFormDesigner, code generation
  - Can look different on different operating systems
- Electron
  - Local nodejs webserver
  - Html/JavaScript technology
  - Requires interprocess communication to use other languages
- Jupyter notebooks
  - Mathematica-like notebook
  - Not for distribution
- Streamlit
  - Python to web compiler
- Game Engines
  - Unity, Godot, Unreal
Tips for building desktop UI
- UI is slow (startup time, interaction time)
- Separate the UI from the engine & business logic

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