An Overview of Portable GUI Software Wade Guthrie Introduction This article attempts to bring together as much information as possible concerning platform-independent Graphical User Interface (PIGUI) development kits 1. It is based on a FAQ list (answers to Frequently Answered Questions) maintained and periodically updated as a service to the net by the author. What is presented here is a number of tables summarizing available PlGUI's, followed by descriptions of the individual products, with reviews and users' comments where possible. What is a PIGUI? A PIGUI toolkit is a software library that a programmer uses to produce GUI code for multiple computer systems. The toolkit presents functions and/or objects (along with a programming approach) which is independent of which GUI the programmer is targeting. For the purposes of this document a PIGUI must support the native lookand-feel for GUIs under at least two different operating systems (so just supporting OpenLook and Motif on two Unix boxes doesn't count). The toolkit does not necessarily provide any additional portability features. Consider Petula Sniggly, a programmer who decides she wants to build the ultimate computer program. This thing is going to be so cool that everyone anywhere near a CPU will
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