Author: David Blackman
Date: 00:16:56 10/03/00
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On October 02, 2000 at 23:18:24, Robert Hyatt wrote: >2. If you write your own, you have to use xwindows graphical calls. X >has been around 10 years longer than windows, but Microsoft didn't choose >to adopt the X standard. Which means that if you roll your own GUI, you >will have to roll two versions (compare xboard and winboard sources to see >what Tim Mann does here). Two versions of something is always gross... There are several cross-platform GUI toolkits that will support MS Windows, X Windows, and in some cases others as well. Tk is the most obvious example. It's portable, (mostly) free, and quite easy to program. But there are many others also, that each have their own advantages, and their own band of fanatical supporters.
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