List of PIGUI packages

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This is a list of packages implementing a platform-independent GUI (PIGUI). These can be used to develop software that can be ported to multiple platforms without changes to its source code.

Contents 1 C/C++ packages 2 Packages in other languages 3 Requiring verification (may be unsupported) 4 No longer available or supported 5 References 6 See also 7 External links

[edit] C/C++ packages

Name	Owner	Platforms	License
DCLAP Don's Class Application library	Don Gilbert	Windows, X11, Mac	Free non-commercial
GraphApp	Dr Lachlan Patrick	Windows, X11	Free
ILOG VIEWS	ILOG	Windows, OS/2, X11	Commercial
JAM	JYACC	DOS, Windows, X11, OpenLook[clarify]	Commercial
MainWin	MAINSoft Corporation	X11 from Windows code	Commercial
MetaCard	MetaCard Corporation	Windows, X11, Mac	Commercial
MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers (formerly NuTCRACKER)	DataFocus, Inc.	Windows from X11 code	Commercial
Presenter (formerly Open Interface Elements)	HCL Technologies	Windows, OS/2, X11, Mac	Commercial
Qt	Troll Tech	Windows, X11, Mac, PocketPC, WindowsCE	Free / Commercial
V [1][2]	Dr. Bruce Wampler	Windows, OS/2, X11	Free (GPL)
Wind/U	Bristol Technology	X11 from Windows code	Commercial
wxWidgets (formerly wxWindows)	wxWidgets	Windows, OS/2, X11, OpenLook[clarify], Mac	Free (LGPL)
XVT Portability Toolkit	XVT Software Inc.	Windows, OS/2, X11, OpenLook[clarify], Mac	Commercial

[edit] Packages in other languages

Name	Owner	Platforms	License
CLIM Common Lisp Interface Manager	Various	X11, OpenLook[clarify], Mac	Free
EiffelVision	ISE	Windows, X11, OpenLook[clarify], Mac	Commercial
Garnet Common Lisp	Carnegie Mellon University	X11, Mac	Free
JAPI Java API for other languages	Merten Joost	Windows, OS/2, X11, OpenLook[clarify], Mac	Free
Java	Sun Microsystems Inc.	Windows, OS/2, X11, OpenLook[clarify], Mac	Open source
Oberon/F / Blackbox	Oberon Microsystems	Windows, Mac	Commercial
Tcl/Tk	Open source	Windows, OS/2, X11, OpenLook[clarify], Mac	Free
VisualWorks Smalltalk	Cincom	Windows, OS/2, X11, OpenLook[clarify], Mac	Commercial

[edit] Requiring verification (may be unsupported)

Name	Owner	Platforms	License
libWxm	Visual Solutions	X11 from Windows code	Commercial
Menuet/CPP	Autumn Hill Software, Inc.	DOS, Windows, OS/2, X11	Commercial
MEWEL UIL	Magma Systems	DOS from Windows code?	Commercial
OpenUI	Open Software Associates	Windows, OS/2, X11, Mac	Commercial
Screen Machine Ada	Objective Interface Systems, Inc.	DOS, Windows, X11	Commercial
SUIT Simple User Interface Toolkit	University of Virginia	DOS, Windows, X11, OpenLook[clarify], Mac	Free
VisualAge for C++ and Smalltalk	IBM	various	Commercial
WM_MOTIF User Interface Library	Software UNO, Ltd.	X11 from Windows code	Commercial
YACL Yet Another Class Library	M. A. Sridhar.	Windows, OS/2, X11	Free

[edit] No longer available or supported

Name	Owner	Comment
Allegris Workshop	Intersolv	Discontinued 1997 (was C++/Views by Liant)
Amulet	Carnegie Mellon University	No longer supported (DARPA funding dropped, 1997 [1])
Appware	Novell	This product has been de-emphasized (which is commonly believed to mean "dropped") by Novell.
CommonV	Computer Associates	Word has it that Computer Associates has stopped supporting Glockenspiel CommonView.
Galaxy	Visix	Read about its demise here
StarView	StarDivision
Vibrant		Allegedly no longer supported - contact info@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov for more information.
WNDX GUI Toolkit	WNDX	now Dragon Sharp, into Java and .NET
zApp	RogueWave	may still be supporting, but no new sales
Zinc	Professional Software Associates	may still be supporting, but no new sales

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• Cross-platform
• Graphical user interface

[edit] External links

• The old, outdated PIGUI FAQ
• The GUI Toolkit, Framework Page
• Lessons Learned from SUIT, the Simple User Interface Toolkit
• wyoGuide - tutorial on good cross-platform development