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Cross-Platform GUI Toolkits (Again)?

Posted by Cliff on from the windows-on-as-many-OSes-as-possible dept.

Futurepower(R) queries: "It has been 2 1/2 years since the previous Ask Slashdot about GUI Toolkits. There were many helpful comments then, such as this one. Since then, Slashdot has discussed wxWindows vs. MFC and considered the book, Creating Applications with Mozilla. The best comparison table is apparently still the GUI Toolkit, Framework Page. Which is the best cross-platform GUI toolkit that provides native look and feel? Which is the best overall? What IDEs and other tools do you use? What are the problems?" Slashdot also had a match-up between GTK+ and Qt, but some of you might have missed that one. How have recent changes in this ballpark changed your feelings on the issue?

10 of 514 comments (clear)

  1. Visual Basic! by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ha! Just kidding. Put the torches out, please.

    1. Re:Visual Basic! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      You may be kidding, but Baby Jebus believes that Visual Basic is God's Tool.

    2. Re:Visual Basic! by goatasaur · · Score: 2, Funny

      Funny, because I refer to something I use a lot as God's Tool.

      Maybe not so funny.

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  2. kinda ironic by cr@ckwhore · · Score: 2, Funny

    Kinda ironic that I'm seeing a .NET ad on this page

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  3. X-Platform GUI Toolkits by GQuon · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm sure Microsoft will provide GUI toolkits for the X-Box themselves. They don't need a bunch of geeks working on some kind of open source solution. Everybody knows that open source is just a fad. Microsoft said so.
    ;-)

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  4. Err...the web? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Man, you're right. The RFC for HTML had one thing that MFC, QT, GTK+, Cocoa, etc. will never have:

    <BLINK>

  5. Text/Note Pad by Beatnick · · Score: 2, Funny

    Everyone knows a good developer uses just a
    simple text editor. ;) Just kidding of course.


    For me, I see the many aforementioned GUI kits
    as great tools but it all comes down to what
    the job demands/dictates. I find myself being cross-trained
    instead of cross-platform developing. Every contract we take on,
    we are asked to perform it in the company's chosen dev environment.
    Anyone else in this predicament?

    Does anyone know of a site that tracks various
    IDEs that are currently in use?

    If your company requires multiple IDEs as mine does,
    who supplies you with the training to effectively
    use the tools as well as the languages themselves?

  6. Re:The web? by dimator · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hmm... ya, you're right. I remember the days when word processors and 3D modeling applications were all written in HTML and javascript for all to use... fucking microsoft...

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  7. Re:The web? by 0x0d0a · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's okay. MS is putting all those complex technologies into rendering the current Start Menu.

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  8. MFC for cross platform? by Spunk · · Score: 2, Funny

    Isn't that like a bar that plays both types of music: country and western?