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List of platform-independent GUI librariesThis 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. C/C++ packages| Name | Owner | Platforms | License |
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DCLAP
Don's Class Application library | Don Gilbert | Windows, X11, Mac | Free non-commercial | | GraphApp | Dr Lachlan Patrick | Windows, X11 | Free | | FLTK (Fast, Light Toolkit) | [1] | X11, Windows, Mac | Free (LGPL) | | GTK+ (GIMP Toolkit) | GNOME Foundation | X11, Windows, DirectFB, Quartz on Mac OS X | Free (LGPL) | | ILOG VIEWS | ILOG | Windows, OS/2, X11 | Commercial | | JAM | JYACC | DOS, Windows, X11, OpenLook[clarification needed] | Commercial | | MainWin | Mainsoft | 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 | Digia | Windows, X11, Mac, PocketPC, WindowsCE | Free / Commercial | | Ultimate++ | Ultimate++ | Windows, X11, PocketPC, WindowsCE | Free / BSD like | | V [2][3] | 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[clarification needed], Mac | Free (LGPL) | | XVT Portability Toolkit | XVT Software Inc. | Windows, OS/2, X11, OpenLook[clarification needed], Mac | Commercial |
Packages in other languages| Name | Owner | Platforms | License |
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Screen Machine
Ada | Objective Interface Systems, Inc. | DOS, Windows, Linux, Unix; Character: DOS, Unix/Linux curses/terminfo, OpenVMS SMG; GUI: Windows, Open Look, X11/Motif | Commercial | CLIM
Common Lisp Interface Manager | Various | X11, OpenLook[clarification needed], Mac | Free | | EiffelVision | Eiffel Software | Windows, X11, OpenLook[clarification needed], Mac | Open source and Commercial | Garnet
Common Lisp | Carnegie Mellon University | X11, Mac | Free | JAPI
Java API for other languages | Merten Joost | Windows, OS/2, X11, OpenLook[clarification needed], Mac | Free | | Java | Sun Microsystems Inc. | Windows, OS/2, X11, OpenLook[clarification needed], Mac | Open source | | Oberon/F / Blackbox | Oberon Microsystems | Windows, Mac | Commercial | | Tcl/Tk | Open source | Windows, OS/2, X11, OpenLook[clarification needed], Mac | Free | | LCL/Lazarus | Open source | Windows (Win32, Qt), Linux (GTK+, Qt), Mac OS X (Qt, Carboon, Cocoa) | Free | | Delphi/Firemonkey | Embarcadero Technologies | Windows, Mac OS X, iOS | Commercial | VisualWorks
Smalltalk | Cincom | Windows, OS/2, X11, OpenLook[clarification needed], Mac | Commercial |
Requiring verification (may be unsupported)| Name | Owner | Platforms | License |
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| 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 | SUIT
Simple User Interface Toolkit | University of Virginia | DOS, Windows, X11, OpenLook[clarification needed], 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 |
No longer available or supported| Name | Owner | Comment |
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| 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 [email protected] for more information. | | WNDX GUI Toolkit | WNDX | now a software consultancy, WNDX software licenses can still be purchased, if required | | zApp | RogueWave | may still be supporting, but no new sales | | Zinc | Professional Software Associates | may still be supporting, but no new sales | | Open Interface | Neuron Data | One of the earliest PIGUI supported DOS, Macintosh, OS/2, VMS, and Microsoft Windows 3.0. |
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