How to write a cross-platform program?

Question

Greetings,

I want to write a small cross-platform utility program with GUI in it. What language/GUI-library should I stick to? Is it possible whatsoever?

Thi

Answer 1

wxWidgets has bindings to all sorts of languages - python for instance, if your app is small enough.

Answer 2

If you're going to look at Qt and WxWidgets, don't forget to also check out GTK+ !

Answer 3

If it "HAS" to be Desktop use Qt. Nothing beats it right now.

However personally I gave up on desktop and any UI based project I do is normally Browser/Server based. You can easily write a little custom server that listens to some port so the program can run locally with no need for your users to install Apache or have access to the net. I have a small Lua, Python and C++ framework I made for that purpose (Want to add Javascript for the backend with V8 :)