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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Whats better for crossplatform applications?
Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 07:42:14
Message-Id: 200905310942.07148.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Whats better for crossplatform applications? by Roy Wright
1 On Sonntag 31 Mai 2009, Roy Wright wrote:
2 > On May 31, 2009, at 2:04 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 > > On Sonntag 31 Mai 2009, Alexander Pilipovsky wrote:
4 > >> May be, it's not a "only Gentoo" question, but I want to write and
5 > >> start
6 > >> applications under Gentoo and Windows. I saw Tcl/Tk library in work
7 > >> (as
8 > >> example OOMMF: http://math.nist.gov/oommf/, but it, sometimes,
9 > >> unstable
10 > >> under Windows XP). And it did not like me to look of buttons, lists
11 > >> etc.
12 > >> Other way I saw in using wxPython (http://www.wxpython.org/) or
13 > >> wxWidgets (http://www.wxwidgets.org/). I want to have as little as
14 > >> possible differences in GUI of my program when it starts under GNOME,
15 > >> KDE or Windows. May be some other libraries for crossplatform
16 > >> development are exists.
17 > >>
18 > >> What library better for unification of application look and
19 > >> developing?
20 > >>
21 > >> P. S. Excuse my English, please :)
22 > >
23 > > qt
24 >
25 > There's a few to choose from. Here's some:
26 >
27 > java - portability was one of the original design goals
28
29 and it is still ugly. Also very funny and old bugs.
30
31 > javafx - looks real interesting for 2D graphics
32 > gtk - lots of language wrappers available
33
34 also windows port not so great. Lots of wrappers is not unique.
35
36 > qt4 - some kde apps are starting to be portable
37
38 kde always was portable. Also developed as a cross plattform lib. Lots of
39 windows apps already use qt. Great documentation. Lots of language bindings,
40 nicer licensing.
41
42 > shoes - really simple UI, designed for learning
43 > gosu - 2D cross platform library
44 >
45
46 don't know them.

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