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What is main difference between FLTK 1.1 and 1.3

#aptitude search fltk|grep dev

p   libfltk1.1-dev                  - Fast Light Toolkit - development files    
p   libfltk1.3-dev                  - Fast Light Toolkit - development files

Why to choose one over another?

Solution

  • From version history:

    This is basically FLTK-1.1.10 with extra features, but with an incompatible ABI. The new features include: full UTF-8 Unicode support, which allows left-to-right non-Latin text such as Greek and Cyrillic; new Fl_Tree, Fl_Table and Fl_Native_Filechooser widgets; printing support; a device abstraction layer; and a new progamming manual generated from the code using Doxygen.

    As you see, you have now:

    • A new ABI that is incompatible with the old
    • UTF-8/Unicode
    • New tree, table, and filechooser widgets
    • Printing
    • Device abstraction(new implementation)
    • Programming manual from Doxygen

    The OP also describes memory usage differences:

    I also noticed 1.1 used 3 MB and 1.3 46 MB