Articles & FAQs

An introduction of the Rust bindings for FLTK

How to use Git for downloading and using FLTK.

CMake is a powerful cross-platform build system, which already has support for FLTK, although this is not well documented on the Internet. This article provides a minimal CMake configuration for a simple FLTK application.

Layout management is an important part of creating a user friendly UI. FLTK uses the 'Fl_Widget::resizable()' method to achieve almost any kind of resizing behavior.

If you have an FLTK Windows GUI application built with /subsystem:windows, you can create a DOS style window and redirect stdout/stderr to it at runtime.

How to use Git as a FLTK developer to push your changes to the FLTK Git repository - work in progress...

FLTK2.0 - patch to make text antialiased in Linux and non-antialiased with Windows

A very brief note on steps involved in building and running a "stock" fltk-1.3 build under nxlib/nano-X, on a F17 host system.

A short note on getting started with fltk on windows - based around the free mingw tools

Reposting Manolo's newgroup posting as an article for easy reference for other FLTK devs. [Small text changes and reformatting for readability]

This is a simple make file to use with the MinGW tool chain.  I recommend setting C:\MinGW\bin AND C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin in the environment %PATH% variable on the development machine.

Demo creates a grid of dynamically labeled and colored buttons displayed in a scrollable window.

Short demo to show what the standard 256 colors look like and create dynamic labels for a grid of buttons

Mini howto describing how to use either Fl_RGB_Image or fl_draw_image() to render arbitrary data as an image on the screen.

This is just a re-edition of the original.

Describes simple use of the AGG light engine from FLTK

This post outlines some changes I made to Fl_Window to optionally construct a Wm3 OpenGL renderer context. Do not confuse this with Fl_Gl_Window. This does not use Fl_Gl_Window, as the WildMagic code is responsible for creating and managing the OpenGL con

This tutorial discusses how to initiate a Drag and Drop operation in FLTK. This is a continuation of the Receiving Drag 'n Drop By Example tutorial.

This short tutorial discusses how to take advantage of FLTK's Drag 'n Drop (DND) infrastructure in your FLTK applications. FLTK provides both receiving and sending DND operations. This tutorial will focus solely on receiving DND events.

Using templates, inheritance, and signal/slots (libsigc++ in this case) to create a more advanced fltk callback mechanism.