Best Practices GUI

Good evening!

I'm considering building my own GUI for LinuxCNC. I've read that the NML interface is actually a C ++ interface. However, I only find tutorials on how to program GUIs with python.

Personally, I prefer C++. Hence my question. Why does everyone build their GUIs in Python? Are there also C ++ tutorials (couldn't find any)

Many thanks for the help!

Konrad

Because python has a much lower bar to get something done and there are toolkits built for linuxcnc specifically to make it even easier.
Python has shown to work satisfactory in most situations other then underpowered CPU, which usually is actually an openGL problem.
Python is relatively easy for a user to customize to suit their situation.

Tthere is very little documentation on C/C++ other then source code.
HALUI would be a C++ example of reading and writing to linuxcnc using NML.

If you do build one, I would suggest GTK3 if using C or QT5 if using C++
then with some planning and care, you could use linuxcnc 's toolkits (GladeVCP or QtVCP) in your design.too.

IIRC Machinekit uses C++ for their screen toolkit.

Chris

Thanks for your help.

I will start using python. Maybe i will switch to C++ .