Which GUI?

[Halvorson, Peter]

I made a stab at this last year.  I don't have any idea which 
provide the widest variety of widgets or which are the easiest 
to use.  Anyone is welcome to incorporate this into a comparison.

Looks like gtk isn't on the list, it should be (good support for
languages, but poor support for platforms).


peter


                                    Bindings               Platforms
GUI       Cost  L&F ASCII  C C+ Tc Pe Py Ja Sm Sc sh Fo   X 95 NT Mac 
--------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Tk         F     V    n    x x  x  x  x        x  x       x x  x  x    
wxWindows  F     V    n    x x     x  x        x          x x  x  x
xforms     F     F    n    x x     x  x              x    x            
V          F     V    n      x                            x x  x  x
Fresco     F     F    n      x                            x               
AWT        F     F    n                  x                x x  x  x       
QT        $/F    F    n    x x        x                   x             
stdwin     F     F    y
Motif      $     F    n    x                              x               
Lesstif    F     F    n    x                              x               
MFC        $     F    n    x x        x                     x  x         
Smalltalk  $     V    n                     x             x x  x  x       

Cost: $ = dollars, F = free
L&F: look and feel: F = fixed, V = variable
ASCII: ascii mode: y = yes, n = no
Bindings: C = C, C+ = C++, Tc = Tcl, Pe = perl, Py = python, Ja = Java,
          Sm = Smalltalk, Sc = scheme, sh = shell, Fo = Fortran
Platforms: X = X window system, 95 = Windows 95, NT = Windows NT,
           Mac = Macintosh