Productive GUI programming - a theory

[Aahz]

In article <14bd1399.0303040932.5d927d7c at posting.google.com>,
kkennedy <titanrebel at comcast.net> 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.  If you are familiar with the Eclipse platform
>(www.eclipse.org).  It uses SWT, which is the abstraction layer.  You
>write code (Java) to one API, and it translates the calls to Win32 on
>Windows, GTK 2 on Linux/Unix, Motif on Linux/Unix, and several others.

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