Cross platform application development

I wrote about cross platform interactive application development a while ago. There are ofcourse many more approaches, and I am talking about two of them here.

wxWidgets is an open source library to create cross platform GUI’s. It’s in C++, but the Python binding – wxPython is quite popular. wxWidgets provides native UI – meaning the window will look like a typical Mac window on Mac, and like a typical Windows window on Windows! It’s been around for 12 years now, and is quite mature.

RealBasic is another good choice. Especially for people who have VB background. They even have a converter utility to port your VB projects to RealBasic. The programming environment itself runs on Windows, Linux and Mac; and the Pro version allows compiling the app across platforms. Joe Barr has written a nice review of the product on Linux.com.

Cross platform application development has been hot for some years and looks like it is getting hotter these days! A lot of clients are asking for it 😉