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tilemap-studio
A tilemap editor for Game Boy, Color, Advance, DS, and SNES projects. Written in C++ with FLTK.
> I haven't seen an FLTK app in years.
FLTK widely used in various scientific apps.
> Does FLTK still look like it came from the 1990's/early 2000's, or did they upgrade the widgets to make them look more modern?
Probably the same. For example, here is screenshot[0] of the OpenVSP[1] - an actively maintained parametric 3D CAD app by NASA.[2]
But also there is `fl_imgtk` — a small library for FLTK image toolkit, designed to use some useful effects in FLTK GUI (better image, better speed, better quality).[3]
[0] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1352349523549577219
[1] https://github.com/openvsp/openvsp
[2] http://openvsp.org
[3] https://github.com/rageworx/fl_imgtk
> I haven't seen an FLTK app in years.
FLTK widely used in various scientific apps.
> Does FLTK still look like it came from the 1990's/early 2000's, or did they upgrade the widgets to make them look more modern?
Probably the same. For example, here is screenshot[0] of the OpenVSP[1] - an actively maintained parametric 3D CAD app by NASA.[2]
But also there is `fl_imgtk` — a small library for FLTK image toolkit, designed to use some useful effects in FLTK GUI (better image, better speed, better quality).[3]
[0] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1352349523549577219
[1] https://github.com/openvsp/openvsp
[2] http://openvsp.org
[3] https://github.com/rageworx/fl_imgtk
> It still appears to have the issue with text flow I ran into years ago where text would overlap with the button outline, rather than increasing the button outline to accommodate the text.
OpenVSP probably uses 'vanilla' FLTK, but there is no such issue on screenshots of Rangi's Tilemap Studio[0,1], where custom FLTK widget themes used.
> That was the one thing I didn't like about it. It made the GUI's look kinda unprofessional.
JFTR, Take a look on AzPainter[2] and its toolkit on top of X11.[3,4]
[0] https://github.com/Rangi42/tilemap-studio
[1] https://hax.iimarckus.org/topic/7691/
[2] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1430517079346749440
[3] http://azsky2.html.xdomain.jp/soft/index.html
[4] http://azsky2.html.xdomain.jp/about_mlk_en.html