DRC,

> Have you ever tried writing a Windows GUI application using bare metal
> Win32 calls?

Nothing beyond Hello World, as far as I recall.

> GTK is a breeze by comparison, and I'm actually
> comfortable developing with it

Great! It was almost 10 years ago when I last tried GTK on Windows. I
was working on the R project (open source statistics stuff), and I was
doing most of my GUI development in Tcl/Tk, which was really easy to
install on Windows, e.g. using ActiveTcl. I may have just been
inexperienced, but I remember really struggling to set up a suitable
GTK development environment on Windows, and I started to really
appreciate being able to install GIMP for Windows from a binary,
rather than from source!  Speaking of R, its Windows GUI uses the
GraphApp toolkit - that may be fun to play around with for developers
prototyping open-source Windows GUIs.

Cheers,
James

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