In article <✉forums.codegear.com>, Luigi Sandon wrote:

> > 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.

It's like those heavier-than-air flying machines -- nobody can make one, 
and noone ever will. <smile>


It may be that you don't happen to like the results that can be achieved 
with the current crop of cross-platform tools, but that doesn't mean 
that there aren't many people happily using applications that have been 
developed with those tools, or that it isn't possible to build better 
ones.


I think the likes of Qt and wx can produce very usable applications. 
They're not perfect in every respect, but I see that as an argument for 
improving the tools, not for decrying them as doomed to failure.

> > have to learn a new framework to target the Mac I'm not going to
> > bother 
> 
> I think the opposite. Each platform I target needs its own native
> application.

Does it? I don't know what sort of applications you write, but 90%+ of 
all applications I use have very basic GUIs that use only the common 
widgets that are available on every WIMP platform. Most of these are 
single-platform apps, but there's no reason to suppose that they 
couldn't have been written with a cross-platform toolkit. There's really 
no need to rewrite an application GUI for every one of those.


Cheers,
 Daniel.