MultiPlatform UI development

[Pankaj Patel]

I have been asked to develop a Windows type application that would run on Win95/98/NT
and Standard Unix. Does anyone know of tool that I can use to develop code on one platform and port the code over to the other platform. One solution is Java...are there any others....

Thankyou

[Chris Eastwood]

Hi

A few years ago I helped develop an application written in C++ using a set of libraries called XVT - the idea was that these libraries could be run on many different platforms to give an independent GUI (as long as you used ansi C++ code). I can't remember who wrote the package, but I'm sure they're still around.


Regards


Chris Eastwood


CodeGuru - the website for developers
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[Alvaro]

If MFC/C++ is your cup of tea, I know of a couple of products out there that you can use to write your app on Windows and then easily recompile it on UNIX with little or no code changes. The most popular one is from Bristol Technologies(http://www.bristol.com/) but I believe that it requires the Motif window manager to work under UNIX. The other one is from MainSoft (http://www.mainsoft.com/) which I think is more flexible than Bristol and even has a version of Visual SourceSafe available for UNIX!

Good luck!

Alvaro

[Marc Vaughan]

Depending on the complexity of the program you might find Tcl (Tickle) helpful ... its in the UNIX OS (most flavours anyway) and is also available on Windoze as shareware.

Marc Vaughan
(Sports Interactive Ltd)

[F. Petitjean]

You want to develop "a Windows type application". What sort of application ?

Check out "The GUI Toolkit Framework Page" :
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/7184/guitool.html
http://www.theoffice.net/guitool