programming gui questions

[Don]

I'd highly recommend Delphi. IMO it's by far the easiest and most powerful language for writing GUIs. It's OK for chess engines and may be 30% slower than highly optimized 'C' but it's still OK. That 30% penalty is irrelevant when it comes to GUIs. That's why so many high quality applications are written in Delphi (Arena, Skype and Feedemon come to mind. See also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland_Delphi

You can download a free version here:

www.turboexplorer.com

Steve

Unfortunately, Delphi is not strong on cross platform support which is very important to me. From what I've seen and heard, Delphi is an excellent programming lanuguage though.

[Steve Maughan]

Unfortunately, Delphi is not strong on cross platform support which is very important to me. From what I've seen and heard, Delphi is an excellent programming lanuguage though.

True. There was Kylix for Linux but that hasn't been developed in a couple of years.

This may all change since CodeGear (Borland's IDE / language subsidiary) was sold to Embarcadero a couple of weeks ago. See:

http://www.embarcadero.com/

As a company they have strong cross platform credentials so one can only be hopeful!

Steve

[Ron Murawski]

or Java.

or TCL/TK?

tcl is substantially under rated. I would vote for tcl/tk for a good GUI. It's also an excellent cross-platform choice.

Writing a GUI in TCL/TK will take the fewest lines of code. I don't know of any other GUI-friendly language as concise as this one.

Ron