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[Nguyen Pham]

Hi all,

I have developed my chess programs for more than 10 years. The code has two main parts. The first one is a chess engine in C++, using STL library (so it can run on some OS such as Win, Linux). I think I will continue developing this part as before.

The second one is GUIs for my chess interface and some freeware chess utilities. It is in C++, using MFC (Visual Studio). All GUIs use chess engine code as the core (not separated as WB and engines). The whole code looks like a mix soup of MFC, STL.

For long time, I have managed maintaining my GUIs only. So now it is the time to re-write them. I plan to support mainly Windows (and maybe, IOS). Continueing to use MFC is easy for me but I have been considering others such as .Net, QT... but not sure if any is worth to invert time and effort.

So my question: which framework / library should I use to develop GUI on Windows?

Thanks in advance for any ideas / suggestions.