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Dug
Dug

Reputation: 835

What technologies are you using to create your desktop UI

For the last few years i have been working as a web developer. So my desktop development skills are a little rusty. I am aware of Adobe AIR, winforms, WFP and silverlight 3.0. I was wandering what other UI frameworks/technologies people are using to implement desktop applications.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 353

Answers (9)

Amokrane Chentir
Amokrane Chentir

Reputation: 30385

It depends on the langage and the platform you're programming for. For C++, you can use either : Qt and its RAD tool: Qt designer, GTK+ / gtkmm or wxWidgets among others..

Upvotes: 0

pkaeding
pkaeding

Reputation: 37633

I haven't tried it yet, but JavaFX sounds pretty cool.

Upvotes: 0

dassouki
dassouki

Reputation: 6366

In terms of GUI design, I depend heavily on QT right now (py and c++ QT). I recommend an excellent book: Rapid GUI Design with QT

Upvotes: 0

Mike J
Mike J

Reputation: 3149

WinForms is the default platform used to develop desktop applications using .NET framework (and Visual Studio 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2008). It's really a wrapper around the Win32 API that deals with CreateWindow and managing the messages sent to that window.

WinForms uses GDI/GDI+ technology while WPF (an exciting new platform offering a LOT of potential) utilizes GDI/GDI+ and DirectX (some parts at least, such as bitmap effects, transitions, fading).

Silverlight is a toned down Web version of WPF. Silverlight 3.0 allows developers to create a rich internet experience without the need to run the application inside a browser. Definitely something to keep an eye out for!

Upvotes: 1

S.Lott
S.Lott

Reputation: 391846

Chrome. Our "desktop" UI is browser-based.

Upvotes: 2

Gerald Senarclens de Grancy
Gerald Senarclens de Grancy

Reputation: 7344

Depends on what you want to do. Some of the bigger toolkits for creating GUIs (among others) are QT (http://www.qtsoftware.com/products/), GTK (http://www.gtk.org/) and wxwidgets (http://wxwidgets.org/). Each of them allows you to code in a couple of different languages and use the GUIs on different platforms. There are plenty other toolkits though, which might fit your needs better (eg. more leight-weight ones).

Upvotes: 3

Mark Synowiec
Mark Synowiec

Reputation: 5445

besides what you listed, you'll also hear about Win32 and MFC (both c++), Tk (which is common with scripting languages like perl/python), the hardware languages OpenGl, glu, and glut (cross platform), DirectX (windows), and X Window System (X11) on linux (and Mac) and Cocoa and Carbon on Mac.

There are many others, but these are ones that I've seen used regularly.

Upvotes: 1

Jage
Jage

Reputation: 565

AIR is pretty cool, I've enjoyed writing projects for it as there are a lot less limitations compared to winforms. winforms is quick and easy to use though in Visual Studio.

I think the list you've got is pretty good to start with.

Upvotes: 2

Gordon Gustafson
Gordon Gustafson

Reputation: 41209

there's lots of different GUI stuff, SWING for java and .net forms are common.

Upvotes: 1

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