On 6/10/10 12:34 PM, Evan Plaice wrote: > <rant>This is my first foray into usenet and f*** the signal to crap > ratio in here is ridiculous. I can't believe that there are 150+ > answers and little or no useful information yet</rant>
That's because the question wasn't really a question. Its a political rallying cry to try to get us all to Do Something we don't really want to do. That said: > I was wondering the same thing since the subject of cross platform GUI > dev makes me cringe. I was wondering if there was a cross-platform > language-agnostic XML-based declarative language. Basically, what HTML/ > CSS is to web browsers for the desktop. > > Microsoft's WPF and more specifically XAML format accomplish the cross- > platform cross-language part but the technology is owned by Microsoft. > > Here are my findings: > <a herf="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2962874/what-are-the-open- > source-alternatives-to-wpf"> > > GTK+ & Glade > Glade is the actual XML format. It can be used on any platform or > language as long as GTK+ running on that system is adapted to it. > > wxWidgets & XRC > XRC is the format. Libraries that use it vary on the language (ex. > wx.NET for C#, VB, and Managed C++). > > If you want a desktop GUI that is cross-platform, language-agnostic, > and open source. Use and contribute to these projects. I'm only familiar with wxWidgets, and I have used XRC though not terribly extensively. Its useful in certain contexts, but at least the toolchains are a bit more 'dialog-focused' then 'design entire apps'. Its still usable though. I usually design all my UI's by hand, just because at this point, I use too many custom components and can do it without thinking. But for certain 'custom' forms that I do make heavy use of XRC. Another thing you can look at is QT/PyQT. If you're doing GPL'd software, that might be a very good solution for you-- you can design your whole app in the beautiful QTDesigner, and the .ui files can be used in any language with a QT binding, PyQT included. But you gotta be GPL'd to use Python. (Although QT is now LGPL, the PyQT bindings continue the GPL/commercial split... and PySide isn't cross platform yet) -- Stephen Hansen ... me+list/python (AT) ixokai (DOT) io
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