WxWidgets (https://www.wxwidgets.org) does a wonderful job of this, with multiple platforms available and supported. There are also bindings for several of the scripted languages, and RAD tools available, as well.
James Fait, Ph.D. Senior Beamline Scientist SER-CAT, Advanced Photon Source [email protected] Light When You Need It http://www.ser-cat.org -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Serguei Mokhov Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2017 11:59 AM To: Yasha Karant <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: development environment for "lowest common denominator" On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 12:46 PM, Yasha Karant <[email protected]> wrote: > I know at one time that there was a proprietary (licensed for fee) > development environment that was native and portable to X11, Mac OS, > and MS Win -- that is, using this "magic" set of libraries, etc., the > same source code (ANSI C++ base as I recall) would have the same GUI > interface in the developed application on all three of these. I do > not recall for which releases this worked. (My assumption is that > there must be something still like this as many "major" web browser > applications have variants for each of these different environments.) > > In a similar way, but hopefully open systems (not licensed for fee), > is there a lowest common denominator for Linux that will work on both > Red Hat and Debian based distros (e.g., SL, Fedora, etc., and Ubuntu, Mint, > etc.)? > -- not necessarily the latest and greatest, but write once (preferably > in ANSI C++ current GNU production release), compile on each environment, and > run. I know that this works for various interpreters (e.g., java, python) > -- but we are looking for compiled to physical machine code if possible. Qt? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(software) -- Serguei Mokhov http://www.cs.concordia.ca/~mokhov http://cciff.ca | http://mdreams-stage.com http://marf.sf.net | http://sf.net/projects/marf
