Productive GUI programming - a theory

Grant Edwards grante at visi.com
Tue Mar 4 20:50:18 EST 2003


In article <slrnb6ahuh.es9.philh at cabalamat.uklinux.net>, phil hunt wrote:

>>Has anyone ever tried to write a "GUI abstraction layer"?  By that, I mean
>>using common API "method calls" to create a GUI interface, and "under the
>>covers" using the appropriate binding based on OS or user choice. 
> 
> That's what Tk does; the Python binding is called tkinter and comes 
> with Python.
> 
> wxWindows does something similar, and also has Python bindings.

I don't think the Windows port of GTK is done yet, but it's doing the same
thing.

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