On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 03:40 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
If you're working in C++ there are a lot of modern frameworks you can use,
but to my knowledge the only cross-platform one is Metrowerks' PowerPlant,
and it does only Mac and Win (and they're in such dire straights I don't
know how long it'll be maintained). But for all the conveniences of a
framework, it comes at a pretty high price: what makes a framework valuable
is that it provides a lot of ready-made widgets, but to use them pretty much
requires that the rest of your application use that framework as well. This
is fine as long as you're writing for just one OS, but Macromedia, Adobe,
and others have had to invest in their own frameworks to produce their
wares, and it's a big job.
Other solid C++ x-platform frameworks:
http://www.wxwindows.org/ (wxwindows) http://www.trolltech.com/ (QT)
However, I think Revrun's use of emulated widgets is truly necessary for true cross-platform-icity. REALbasic uses native widgets, with mixed results IMHO.
Interestingly, I think QT uses emulated widgets too. So does Java, for the most part.
Alex Rice, Software Developer Architectural Research Consultants, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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