how can i simply and freely create any form of professional software with fortran?
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You have some choices:
- By using the gtk-fortran bindings to GTK.
- The DISLIN plotting library allows you to implement (simple) GUIs as well.
- You could create the GUI itself in Tcl/Tk and call Fortran from Tcl through ISO_C_BINDING interfaces (example). The user interfaces may be created with the help of GUI builders, like GRIDPLUS2 or Visual Tcl.
- Same is possible in Lua, using interface bindings to expose your Fortran procedures to the Lua interpreter.
- Some Fortran compilers offer interfaces to the Win32 API.
- Alternatively, run dialog or Xdialog from Fortran by calling the intrinsic
execute_command_line().
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Additional choices:
- GINOMENU for Windows
- Winteracter for Windows, Linux and MacOS
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Simply Fortran includes AppGraphics for making GUIs on Windows. It’s not cross-platform, though.
Welcome @_Araoluwa to the Discourse!
If your question is resumed by the title of your post “Gui creation in Fortran”, you have already received pertinent answers.
But can you explain what you mean by “professional software”? as we can easily imagine here professional software without GUI (a Fortran compiler for example!). Do you mean a software that you could distribute to lambda users? Are you thinking about a specific platform (Windows, macOS, Linux…)?
Not a full GUI, but tinyfiledialogs offers many modal and file dialogs in C. It provides the iso_c_ binding interface / module to call these functions from fortran (I am the author).
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