Allan Whiteford wrote: > Hi, > > I want to write a GUI telnet client with groovy features (a mud client > if that means anything to people). > > I'd want it to be cross-platform (i.e. windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP and > unix) compatible. > > What language/toolkit should I be looking to use? I'd prefer to do the
The short answer is Java / Python , Swing / Tk. Or Tcl. WxWindows is cross platforms GUI / OS abstraction layer, uses Win32 on Windows, GTK on Unix. Can use C/C++ with it i think. > programming in C. I've found a nice (open source) client which uses C > with gtk which I could start from, how easy is it for GTK to run under > win32 for people who would want to use the software? Can I provide a > statically linked binary? (I'm not trying to hide the source, just make > it easy to use for the average windows punter). I think the GTK win32 port lags behind X11. I get the impression its not really well supported. > Do (good) free compilers (not necessarily IDEs) exist for windows? GCC is ported, Borland C++ is freely downloadable. George -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
