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0 pointsstefano8y ago0 comments

There are at least GTK+, JavaFX, Swing and wxwidgets.

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maxxxxx8y ago· 2 in thread

Do they have complex widgets like grids and stuff? I have worked with wxWidgets for a while and for anything besides basic fields you had to put in a lot of work and code from scratch. I can definitely see the appeal of Electron and reusing web apps and frameworks.

Makes we wonder if Electron apps really have to suck up that much memory. Could the framework be tuned to use less?

rootlocus8y ago

> Do they have complex widgets like grids and stuff?

Yes, they all have complex widgets like grids and stuff. Grids being layout managers, not widgets.

maxxxxx8y ago

I guess I meant grid as in data grid to show data from a database, not layout. With wxWidgets it got tedious once you needed sorting, filtering or paging.

On the web I have a lot of choice, also in .NET. Not so much in qt or wxwidgets. I have seen some very nice Java desktop apps recently so maybe that's a good choice now despite a not so good reputation.

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