Re: Portable library to create GUI intefaces ?

From:

"Balog Pal" <pasa@lib.hu>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.c++

Date:

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:56:35 +0200

Message-ID:

<i1ubq6$2tdc$1@news.ett.com.ua>

"Sherm Pendley" <spamtrap@shermpendley.com>

I would like a portable free library (to run on Windows and Linux),
and I would like to provide a native interface on each OS (I mean
on Win32 the application looks like an Win32 application, and on
Linux it looks like an X application)

I've yet to see a portable library that looks and feels native on all
supported platforms. Even the ones that use native widgets tend to
feel a bit "off."

A better idea IMHO is to use an MVC design, with portable Model and
Model Controller classes, and a set of platform-specific View and View
Controller classes for each supported platform.

Yeah, I'd probably walk that route. With good MVC separation the interface
can be created in the most native ways using the same model code. Then on
windows you can use any of the proven frameworks (you can even write it in
..NET/C# or something instead of C++...). And use some native unix library.

From the original list, definitely avoid GTK like a plague.