[geeks] Cross-Platform GUI Lanuages?

[Dave McGuire]

On February 2, Michael Dombrowski wrote:
> A while ago I helped a friend out with a project he was working on - 
> in less than an hour we learned and put into place a graphical, data-
> base driven app using Visual Basic. Using it really showed me why C++ 
> does not make sense for every app I do and a RAD tool can be really 
> nice for quick apps. From the little I played with Visual Basic it 
> seemed pretty nice and I'd like something like it but for Unix + 
> Windows and maybe Mac.  So, can anybody suggest a language that is 
> cross-platform, quick to design, can access databases, has gui and 
> network support? I'd like to be able to compile it into an app also 
> but that is not a requirement. I do not want to and can not use java. 
> Something like Kylix Pro edition looks great, a little pricy but not 
> too bad. Another language I looked at is Python + wxWindows but I've 
> not yet played around with it.

  Have you looked at tcl/tk?  It's amazingly powerful, and I've seen
some great working/great looking GUIs done with it.

   -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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