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  1. Cross-Platform GUI Toolkits?

    Ask · Programming · · posted by Cliff · from the marginalizing-the-OS dept. · 126 comments
    rrwood asks: "The company at which I work is about to overhaul an existing application. Strangely enough, we're primarily Macintosh-based, but are casting an eye towards cross-platform development (i.e. Windows, though I'm hopeful that an X/Linux-based version is also a possibility). Given that the app is to be a fairly rich GUI front end that talks to a database backend, I'd be interested in hearing any recommendations or advice anyone out there has to offer." Read on for more information on the toolkits currently under consideration (feel free to offer more suggestions), but we are talking toolkits here. The topic of cross-platform languages got a rather thourough treatment in a previous article.

    "It's pretty much a necessity for the solution technology to include a RAD tool.

    With respect to using a portable C++ core and platform-specific GUI layer (or even portable GUI layer-- keep reading), there are a few toolkits around that seem promising:

    • GLUI, an OpenGL-based GUI
    • Whisper, a Mac/Windows application framework
    • WxWindows, a framework which supports Windows 3.1/95/98/NT, and Unix with GTK/Motif/Lesstif, and MacOS
    • YAAF, Yet Another Application Framework, offering suport for Macintosh OS, Windows 95 and Windows NT, and X Windows
    • CPLAT, a framework for developing MacOS and Windows (Linux soon) applications
    • Ardi's Carbonless Copies technology, which is a portable rewrite of much of the MacOS API
    Additionally, these URLS have a lot of info on Platform Independent GUIs: