On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 09:23:12AM -0500, markw-FJ05HQ0HCKaWd6l5hS35sQ@public.gmane.org wrote:
> I have been looking for a way to support Windows, Mac, and Linux for
> a project. I was toying with using Java, but that means people have
> to have a working java installation or "I" need to be able install
> java for them.

An alternative is Python...  It's installed by default on Linux at
least, I'm not sure about Mac.  For Windows there's a clever program
called py2exe which creates a windows executable that packages your
program along with an embedded Python interpreter, so that Windows
users don't need to install it manually.

> If you are facing a similar issue of wanting to create a GUI app,
> but don't want to be tied to a particular platform, this looks
> pretty good.  They support Mac, Windows, and POSIX. (Linux, etc.)
> The cool part is that they have multiple GUI methodologies on Linux,
> i.e. Motif, X11, GTK.

Python also has bindings for wx* on all three platforms. :)  Note also
that you can use GTK directly from Python on all 3 platforms, too.


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