"Luigi Sandon" wrote in message news:✉forums.codegear.com...

>> I disagree. The value of cross-platform tools is that the SAME codebase
>> targets all platforms. The idea is that it should be possible to write
>
> That's the Holy Grail noone ever found - and noone will.

I dont know why people keep on saying that.  QT is cross platform and *very* 
thorough.  wxWidgets is cross platform w/ native widgets.  Real Basic is 
cross platform (even if the IDE itself is limited).  FPC/Laz is cross 
platform... with interchangable gui toolkits to boot.  Heck, I maintain a 
WinCE/ARM app that I design and compile under windows using Lazarus.  About 
the only IDE that *cant* make cross platform (native) apps is Delphi.  And 
of course, all that completely ignores the countless C based, non-GUI 
libraries that can compile on virtually any platform with a c compiler.


This notion that an IDE cant be used to create apps that look good on each 
platform while using the same code base is simply nonsense.  Will there be 
tweaks to the code based on the platform?  Yes.  We do that now even for 
different versions of windows.  I dont think anyone is expecting 100%, line 
per line compatibiity.  But if it can get me 90-95% there... I certainly 
wouldnt mind tweaking the rest, as thats a world better than a complete 
re-write.