Re: GUI development: Windex vs. GTK vs. Anything else

[John English <je@brighton.ac.uk>]

Jesse Farmer wrote:
> I'm looking for opinions on what to use for developing a GUI for an
> application that is intended to be developed across Win, Mac, and Linux
> platforms.  This application will quite likely need some specialized gui
> work, so standard widgets won't get it entirely done.

Give us a clue? What would you need beside buttons, checkboxes,
editboxes,
all the "standard widgets" stuff? What level of composability are you
after
here?

> Best approach?  Use api bindings like Windex and the respective binding for
> Mac, and Xwindows-gnome stuff?
> Or try using GTK since it is supported across all of those platforms?
> 
> It should be obvious that the application in question is being coded in Ada.
> Windows in the primary development target, all others are secondary
> concerns.

Hmm. Can look at http://www.comp.it.bton.ac.uk/je/jewl/, but at present
this is Windows only (JDK for jgnat is in progress, but very early days
yet!) and it provides only "standard widgets".

> Any advice would be welcome!

So would more clues... :-)

Happy new millenium!

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