Re: portable GUI toolkit

[pontius@twonky.btv.ibm.com (Dale Pontius)]

In article <9605011307.AA23509@eight-ball>,
        Bob Crispen <revbob@EIGHT-BALL.HV.BOEING.COM> writes:
>"Terry J. Westley" <westley@BUFFNET.NET> sez:
>
>>> If a binding is portable across Macs, X-Windows, and others, just
>>> what is it a binding to?  It would seem to be a binding
>>> to a platform independent graphical toolkit of your invention.
>>
>>There is in fact just such a toolkit.  It is called Tcl/Tk.  To learn more
>>about it, see http://www.smli.com/research/tcl/.  There are many other
>>sites with Tcl/Tk information.  Search for Tcl/Tk in your favorite search
>>tool.  Tcl/Tk is available for X, Mac, and Windows in both source and binary
>>forms.
>
>I'm aware of 3 other major cross-platform efforts (there must be more)
>that may be relevant in one way or another:
>
>http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~jacs/wxwin.html -- WxWindows
>http://www.cs.unm.edu/~wampler/ -- V
>http://www.gnustep.org/ -- OpenStep
>
>V seems to have got a boost recently when Steve Chamberlain included it
>in the latest release of GnuWin32, the C and C++ compiler for Win95 and
>WinNT.
>
Another of those 'not quite there' portable GUI toolkits is ODF.
It's a user interface library for OpenDoc, and is cross-platform.
It's testing on Mac now, OS/2 this summer, Windows this fall, and
Unix sometime in there.

Dale Pontius
(NOT speaking for IBM)