RISC OS Toolkit (RTK)

Does anybody know what the RISC OS Toolkit was and why it has disappeared? It seems to have been a C++ class for easy WIMP programming. Or is it just another way of using OSLib and UnixLib?

https://books.google.de/books?id=xBxq9xp76FkC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=riscos+toolkit&source=bl&ots=fc_6DnQZca&sig=ACfU3U1YeBYEbfGiai6Wsti8Rd33-wo0LQ&hl=de&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiHo8zMhazlAhVxMewKHfNfDZUQ6AEwBnoECAgQAQ#v

https://books.google.de/books?id=O-ewOXJ9_i4C&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=using+unixlib&source=bl&ots=Eaong9HNGX&sig=ACfU3U2XWFvFxGIM76QDcgDZ67lQ3Eqxwg&hl=de&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjMrMuRh6zlAhWBZFAKHbJmBZIQ6AEwAnoECAkQAQ#v

This one?

Yes. So it still exists. But it says:

“[outdated] RISC OS Toolkit – system C++ class library for RISC OS”

https://github.com/caliston/RTK

This seems to be its “successor”. Has anyone worked with it?

“RISC OS Toolbox library for C++”

https://github.com/caliston/tbx

After looking into the “!Graphics” example, TBX “looks” quite useful, so I want to give it a try. The TBX license file says its free to use.

Does this help, TBX 0.7.4

There is another library for Wimp programming: http://rovlib.tribbeck.com/

RTK is by Graham Shaw, it is completely independent from TBX, which is by Alan Buckley. The only connection between them is probably the RISC OS packaging project – Graham did the packaging format, and RiscPKG, and Alan did the currently used package manager PackMan. Oh, and both are/were hosted in riscpkg.org SVN, see http://source.riscpkg.org/websvn/

IIRC, RTK does not use the Toolbox, while TBX does.

Other alternatives include DrWimpC, DeskLib, Desk, ROVLib and WOUM (includes LimpX). Most stuff is very C centric, while RTK and TBX are C++ centric.

I forgot to say: the official repo for TBX is here: https://github.com/alanbu/tbx