Best Cross Platform GUI Development Tool?

[Ken Moffat]

Vu Pham wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 18:28 -0500, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
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>> Looking for opinions here.
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>> What is the best tool set for creating cross platform GUIs?  I need
>> something that that comes together fairly quickly and can access a
>> database backend.  Must run on Windoze (I will develop on linux.)  It
>> may be a web based application.  What should I use?  Why?
>>
>> There are no right or wrong answers here, I just need to find something
>> vaguely familiar that I can throw an application together in a month or
>> so.  'C' is my favorite programming language.
>>
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> It seems to me that "cross-platform" relates very much with Java. And
> Java tools that can help creating apps quickly ( relatively ) and that I
> 've tried are Netbeans ( www.netbeans.org ), Eclipse
> ( www.eclipse.org ), JDeveloper ( Oracle ) and Idea
> ( www.jetbrains.com ). All of those tools run fine on both Windows and
> Linux. The first three are free, and the last one is not free.
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> Personally I prefer Netbeans and Idea. As you say, there is no right or
> wrong about which IDE is good. Some like Eclipse, some like Netbeans or
> others.
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> All of these tools are very good at debugging.
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> Not sure about the other tools, but I know Netbeans has profiling tool
> that helps you check for performance bottleneck, memory leak ... I think
> other tools have profilers also, but I have not tried them.
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> All of these support both web apps and desktop apps ( I mean the
> applications that run locally on your workstations ).
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> I know JDeveloper and Netbeans have the visual web designers, which
> allow you drag and drop components and see how they are displayed on the
> web pages, and they also allow you to drag database tables onto web data
> grid and bind them together.
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> Vu
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There is also JBuilder from borland, a nice java gui. They may have a 
free basic edition.