From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-09-28T14:21:07+09:00
Subject: Re: GUI programming for WinXP/Linux/OSX?

Tim Smith wrote:
> The cross-platform GUI solutions tend to have little (or big!) 
> deviations from the normal native GUI application behavior on one or 
> more of their supported platforms.  It often turns out to be worth it to 
> separate the GUI from the rest of your project, and then you can do the 
> GUI separately on each platform using whatever tools you would use if 
> that was the ONLY platform you had to support, and do the rest of your 
> project in whatever you want (e.g., Ruby), because the users will never 
> have to see it.
> 
> At first, this sounds like about 4 times as much work, as you are doing 
> your project's code, plus three separate GUIs.  However, the GUIs should 
> be pretty simple.
> 
> If you make the GUI and the rest of the project communicate using some 
> kind of RPC over TCP, you even get, for pretty much free, the ability to 
> have the GUI remote.
Or use Rails and make a browser-based GUI with Ajax.