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Free Toolkits (including both and no-cost ones)

C/C++ oriented

(unless explicit stated with "C API", all toolkits in this table provide APIs in C++)
 

Name	Comments	license	Unix +	Unix +	MS Win 95/98	MS Win NT/2000	MS Win 3.1	OS/2 PM		MacOS X	other platforms
's cross platform layer	cross-platform framework in C++ see interesting development methodology for more info Unix version built on		y		y	y				y	QNX and BeOS
	n open source free class library primarily developed for use with X Window System. Uses .		y
	a cross-plataform, easy-to-use, non-intrusive C++ GUI library that runs on top of	LGPL	(via )	(via )	(via )	(via )	(via )	(via )	(via )	(via )	(via )
	a high-level graphical C application framework aimed primarly at 2D/3D games and simulations. Agar applications are portable to a variety of platforms thanks to the .support for SDL 2D and rendering. Thread safe		y (via )	(via )	y (via )	y (via )	(via )	(via )	y (via )	y (via )	other platforms supported by
	aims to support Amiga and X11	art	?								Amiga (?)
	a small GUI library for DOS, useful for embedded applications		y								DOS 16/32 bit
( discounted?)	research-oriented toolkit from CMU. native look andfeel. High-level support for interactive interfaces: Direct Manipulation Behaviors, Undo, Animation, etc. original project at CMU completed and Nolonger supported.  However, another group has picked up development as OpenAmulet.		y		y	y			y
	research system from CMU. C and C++ API.		y
	a C++ Framework for creating applications using Gnome-- and      .	LGPL	y
(new)	a totally new window system for Unix/Linux that alsoincludes high level APIs for GUI programming.  Very experimental asit buids upon  OpenGL and CORBA.  Successor of and Berlin renamed to Fresco in 2002, taking on the name of the old GUI toolkit
	GUI library for .based on BOOPS. C API.	freely distributable									Amiga
	GUI toolkit of the project		y		y	y			y
	(Component Library for Cross-platform) Cross-platform library for, and part of, Delphi, and CBuilder - Based on top of , Linux only		y
	very powerful and complete advanced application framework with strong GUI components.  Advanced functionalities for non-GUI tasks like networking, shared memory, etc.		y		y	y					Amiga (old versions)
	C++ interface to the library tries to provide not only the Tk functionality, but also its way of writing code, based on the syntax used in Tcl/Tk.	BSD	y		y	y				y(?)
	a C++ application framework and utility library for single-source Mac/Windows applications				y	y			y	y
		BSD	y
	an "UI utility with themes support." just begin.	LGPL	y
	bare-bone application framework. Nolonger developed and maintained for 3 years already			y	y	y	y		y
EasyGTK (link broken?)	EasyGTK is a wrapper library to make GTK programmingeasier, and quicker	GPL	y
	Collection of general purposes libraries essentially coded in C++ and working under UNIX and Windows. containing GUI library		y		y	y
	project is completed. successor is .		y(?)	y(?)
	C API. motif look and feel.	LGPL	y
	The Fast Light Tool Kit. API modeled after ,but in C++. SGI Motif look and feel. good documentation.(, an UI builder)		y		y	y		y		y
	C++-based toolkit on top of XLib. MS Win 95 look.under development		y		y	y	y
(old) also see as the new Fresco	Advanced research toolkit formly supported by theX Consortium but now independently developed. Successor to .()() () development stopped,  succeeded by		y		y	y			y
	The old GUI environment for MSDOS and Atari ST (about1985), now free  software	GPL									MS-DOS and Atari ST
	C++ classes for programming, for .	LGPL
	a research project, is completed.			y
	"a cross-platform object-oriented framework for building interactive applications using or similar APIs such as Mesa. It is, at its heart, an C++ wrapper for , providing a fully object-oriented API for creating windows, menus and other GUI elements, and for event handling. GLOW also features an extensible cross-platform widget library for building powerful user interfaces."Note: Thusportable to any platform where a functional OpenGL implementation exists(including )	LGPL
	An /-basedGUI toolkit.   Rendering is done entirely in OpenGL. Win 95 lookand feel.  Note: Thusportable to any platform where a functional OpenGL implementation exists(including )	LGPL
GNOME (libs)	the also servesas an application framework, C API. Requirers		y
	envolving NextStep/OpenStep clone. C/Objective CAPI. Version 0.6.6 just released	LGPL	y
	a gtk+-based toolkit for writing simple user interfaces	LGPL	y
	a library for "drawing pictures, functions or othergraphic objects in an interactive manner" or simple graphical user interfaceconstruction" with emphasis on visualization, not UI	GPL	y
	C API. a small toolkit for teaching.	?	y	y	?	?	y
	developed as part of the project. Now at version 2.2. C API. IS the leading toolkit in the free software community in conjuction with variable  look and feel (default:Motif).  () () ()(and , ObjectC wrappers) (, port to gtk+ (C++ API)) (,port to gtk+ (C++ API)) ( , , , other C++ wrappers) , , ,UI builders for gtk+ and gtk-- , a library for gtk/  allowing GUI built at run time from specifications in configuration files in XML format, without the need to recompile program		y								, ,
	complete C++ wrapper for and . Uses modern C++ features (templates, etc.) for type-safe callbacks and signal/slots with .,GUI builders for gtk-- related: , c++ bindings for	LGPL	y
	"a class set which allow You to build applications with new Microsoft interface style .It includes more than 50 of MFC classes"				y	y
	attempts to create a clone witha true Free Software license.  Development is halted.	LGPL	unfinished
	C API.	?		y
	is an actively maintained and envolved version of Interviews, formerly by Ivtool apps can be embedded inside Motif and Xt canvas. Ivrools contains a A , and () was  an early advanced toolkit whose development stopped around  1993. conceptual successor is  .		y
	a set of integrated foundation libraries for developingC++ applications on UNIX-like systems such as Linux, including C++ wrapper for (2.0 only) new developer, now in version 1.0 beta	LGPL	y
	ANSI C, native controls, custom contros, abstract layout, only a few functions, Lua Scripting			y	y	y
	a small, "basic self-contained no-frills toolkitto create platform-independent GUI software (in C++)	GPL	y
	Written in JAVA and C,  provides the JAVA AWT Toolkit to non object oriented Languages like C, Fortran, Pascal, Ada and even Basic		y	y	y	y
	an all-encompassing C++ class library for developing cross-platform applications	GPL			y	y				y
	stalled in favor of the . recently resumed	?	y
KDE(libs)	also serves as anapplication framework. Requires	LGPL	y
	an envolving Motif 1.2 clone. getting close to becomea complete Motif substitution. C API.		y
	"the Simple X library -- is a lightweight wrapperlibrary sitting on top of the Athena Widget set." C API	LGPL	y
	also for BeOS "a small enough library that one person can understand it all."	LGPL	y		y	y					BeOS
	C API.	BSD	y
	Linux Interface Project. still under development, in the beginning stage. development stalled?	LGPL(?) Art(?)	y
MacAPP	's Mac framework, probably the first widely available GUI framework.   No longer supported by Apple but third party development at	MacAPP license			y (unfinished)	y (unfinished)			y	y
	C API. the GUI toolkit is part of a C-like scriptlanguage for quickly building GUIs, although also usable from compiled C. Motif look and feel.		y
	C++ API. Framework on top of Carbon API.								y	y
	"an object-oriented application framework .... providingreusable objects for 2D graphics, user interface components, 3D graphics,video, audio, and music." based on .	?	y		?	y(?)			y(?)
	C API.	?	y		y	y	y
	a small windowing system providing Win32 and X11API, targetting embedded systems. C API	MPL, GPL	y								MS-DOS, Linux framebuffer, RTEMS, Linux SVGAlib
	" a compact Graphics User Interface (GUI) support system for Linux. MiniGUI defines some Win32-like APIs for the applications. The goal of MiniGUI is keeping its features of small and exquisiteness to provide a small windowing system support library."	LGPL	y								Linux framebuffer, Linux SVGAlib and libCGI
	The real Motif, the traditional standard Unix X11 toolkit, now moving toward free/open source software.  C API.	(free for free/open source unices only)	y	native
	C++ wrapper for motif.	?		y
	written in object-oriented C.  C API. Motiflook and feel. ()	GPL	y
	NGL is an application framework intended to work with 's OpenGL* API. NUI is a cross-platform C++ GUI programming framework for OpenGL applications built on top of the NGL	LGPL	y		y	y			y	y
NWS	distributed as part of .C API.	GPL	y
	"a highly portable user interface toolkit with dynamicedition." look and feel and behavior are adjustable/editable at run time		unfinished (?)		y	y		unfinished	unfinished
(as an GUI application framework )	possibly modern forms of ? containing a complete application framework and GUI library as the basis of an office suite, including low level GUI toolkit (), ,		y		y	y
	a very rich C++ interactive application API withclasses for X11 windows, images, events, clipboards, inter-application communications, styles for look and feel, layout management and drag anddrop.  Also has classes for Unix system services. Open Look and Motiflook and feel. In alpha  release. No longerdeveloped, work merged into		y
	a small  graphics  &   windowing library  built  upon a  fast,    low-level  x86 asm  graphics  kernel. Windows 95 look and feel	LGPL									Linux console, MS-DOSDJDPP, QNX
	a high-level crossplatform application framework and GUI library. It is completely based on the . Works on any environment where SDL exists.	LGPL	y (via )		y (via )	y (via )			y (via )
	"a new Graphical User Interface architecture designed with embedded systems in mind. ... includes low-level graphics and input, widgets, themeing, layout, font rendering, network transparency, and debugging features." Also can be an alternative windowing system (when running on framebuffers)	GPL/LGPL	y (native or via )		y	y				y (via )	Linux frame buffer, numerous embedded devices (see )
	a C++ class library and framework for X Window Systemwith OSF/MOTIF look-and-feel. API is similar to the Java AWT API.	LGPL		y
	a high-quality framework. hasadvanced features not present in other toolkits, such a full 2d graphics API (with rotations, scaling, shearing, etc.), metafile support, same code for screen and printer output. variable look and feel (default:Motif or Win95). approaching version 4 KDevelop, , and , UI buildersfor Qt , additional GUI components for Qt for scientific appl (see for info on integration with )	(1.x series, X11 versiion)  Qt 2.x series, X11 version) (Qt 2.2 and later, X11 version) (Windows version) ()	y		y	y					: for the Linux frame buffer without X.
	a small sized, extremely type safe, no overhead what so ever, fully template based C++ GUI library for Windows API (formerly known as Win 32 API).				y (?)	y
	C API. No longer supported.	?	y						y
	Simple User Interface Toolkit. C API.	?	y				y		y
	information in Spanish... no English info available.		y (?)							?
	good widget set but not frequently used as a pure C library. Widely used in combination with high-level script languages (, , ,,etc.). C API. Native look and feel.	BSD	y		y	y	y		y	y
	in early stage, still alpha	LGPL	y
	implementation of MS Windows API on other platforms.C API.		y		native	native	native		y
	C++ toolkit that "achieves significant reduction of code complexity for most applications when compared to other development platforms"	BSD	y		y	y
	Common C++ wrapper for many platforms. a good "competitor"of .native look and feel.  (, gtk+ port of V)		y	y	y	y	y	y
	"Visual Development Kit", a C++ wrapper for (, a RAD tool for VDK)	LGPL	y
	part of National Center for Biotechnology Informationsoftware development toolkit, a multi-platform user interface developmentlibrary that automatically handles the behavior of GUI objects, with callbacksto programs			y	y(?)	y(?)	y(?)		y
	a clone of the .Currently not being developed.	LGPL(?)	(in the future with lesstif)	y
()	C++ framework for Motif.  Freely available for Linux Only.			y
	Visual Component Framework, "a simple to use cross platform GUI framework, with many of the advanced design features of Java and Java's Swing, and Borland's Visual Component Library.Also provides advanced RTTI/Introspection features common in languages like Object Pascal, Objective C, Smalltalk, and Java, but not typically found in C++"	BSD	in development		y	y				in development
	The Virtual X Class Library. API strongly linked to the Win32 API.			y	y	y	y
	Visual Text Library, a "character cell"-based librarylike text mode but displayed in a X window	GPL	y
	"Wafe (Widget[Athena]front end) is a package thatimplements a symbolic, string based interface based on to the X Toolkit, the Athena Widget Set , Motif and various complementary widget classes and extension packages. " C API.		y	y
	a simple, platform independent dialog manager library using	LGPL	(via )	(via )	(via )	(via )	(via )	(via )	(via )	(via )	(via )
	"general purpose Mac/Win32 C++ application framework. successor to the Mac framework Raven.  is a modern framework that takes advantage of templates, multiple inheritance, STL, and exceptions. is designed around the notionofDesign by Contract and includes numerous debugging tools."	BSD			y	y	y		y
	an IDE with an original windowing library and visual window editor and a rich set of development facilities	BSD	y		y	y				y
	"a free implementation of Windows (API) on Unix" On Intel x86 PCs only, can be used to port Windows programs to X11		y (Intel x86 PC only)		native	native	native	y
	"Windows Interface Reduced Programming is a libraryof c routines for simple, platform independent GUI programming." C API.	?	y
?)	C++ classes around X widgets.	?	y(?)	y(?)
	(formerly wxWindows) Common C++ wrapper for many platforms. version 2,.4  just released. native look and feel. good cross-platform support.(, X Toolkit port) (, port)	(version1.x only) LGPL (only) (version 3.0, actually LGPL plus exceptions)	y	y	y	y	y	y	y	y	also on top of , and
	a C++ wrapper for Motif.	LGPL		y
	"a C++ library providing an object-oriented interfaceto X11R5 Xlib"	BSD	y
	"the X11 layout library." details available in Germanonly  note another toolkit has the samename	LGPL	?
	developed in conjuction with the window manager. MS-Win 95 look and feel. note another toolkit has the samename	LGPL	y
	a toolkit distributed in binary form only. C API. (,a UI builder)		y
(?)	C++ classes for Motif and X11 Athena widgets	?	y	y
,	"Xmt is a Motif Tools library. The Xmt Motif Tools library provides developers of user interfaces tools that make Motif easier to use. Xmt consists of the core library of additional widgets, utility programs, docs, tutorials, and example code." C API. Supports rapid prototyping, GUI story boarding. "Xmt++ is to provide a C++ Model-View-Controller framework implementation based on Xmt. This framework makes it easier to integrate a Motif GUI to an application and maintain design integrity."		y
	C API		y
	cross-platform, toolkit for ."An open source SDK for building common cross-platform user interfaces usingexisting cross-platform standards (e.g., XML, RDF, HTML, CSS, DOM, JavaScript) and technologies (e.g., Gecko, XPConnect) to minimize platform-specific code." May built on top of and Xt for		y (Xt, gtk)	?	y	y	y	y	y	y	BeOS
	the Open Look widget set. C API. no longer supportedby Sun in favor of Motif.		y
(link broken?)	native look and feel			y	y	y	y	y
	Yet Another Application Framwork,  with fairlycomplete  GUI classes and good cross-platform support		y		y	y			y
	a set of universal cross-platform libraries for creationof the graphical modular applications for any UNIX or Microsoft Windowsplatform. C API	LGPL	y		y	y
	well stablished, cross-platform  framework. supports 24 platforms  (including MS DOS and Unix text mode)			y	y	y	y	y			MS-DOS, VxWorks, pSOS
	"Zoolib provides a GUI toolkit with a uniquely flexible layout system. It also provides a single-file database format, TCP networking, and extensive debugging support. ZooLib applications are multithreaded. ZooLib requires only minimal support from the underlying OS and platform GUI layer, and thus could be ported to a completely new platform without too much difficulty"		y		y	y			y	y	BeOS
	Amiga MUI clone for X11	LGPL	y
Name	Comments	license	Unix +	Unix +	MS Win 95/98	MS Win NT/2000	MS Win 3.1	OS/2 PM		MacOS X	other platforms

(⁺X11 has been ported to OS/2 so theoretically X-based toolkits work in OS/2 X11 as well. see )

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Java oriented

• (GPL-like
• , licensed under ,from (nolonger available?)
• ,not an AWT clone but a toolkit based on advanced research
• (only supports Java 1.0.2)
• ,  from (
• 's
• ,a lightweight, high-performance Java GUI toolkit which can serve as a replacement for the AWT (license: )
• ,a GUI toolkit implemented in Java, to be used with Jacl, a Tcl intrepreterin Java ()
• , a non-OO, procedural toolkit built on top of AWT, and accessible from Pascal, C and Fortran, for Windows and Unix
• ,  for Unix and Windows, GPLed.
• SWT, The Standard Widget Toolkit, part of project, for Windows, Mac, QNX and Unix (Motif, gtk and Qt) ()
• , a "transparent wrapper" around
• a toolkit for building Java applications with Java and XML, release under an MPL like license.

Ada

, Ada binding for ,for X11 and Windows ( )

,X11 and Motif forAda

, RAD environment for Ada

, GUI framework for Ada on Windows  ( )

, Ada wrapper for the Win32 API ()

, Simple GUI framework for rapid development of GUI programs ()

, Ada framework for the Windows  API, demo version

binding for Java AWT (LGPLed)

• , Rapid Ada Portable Interface Design tool,. generates Ada code using a platform independent GUI library. (Current implementations utilize the binding to Tcl/Tk, the GNAT to JVM compiler, the Microsoft .NET framework, or

BASIC

, a BASIC interpreter with bindings for WxWidfgets (

binding for Java AWT (LGPLed)

LISP

• , GUI development environment for Common Lisp. No longer supported.
• , a  rapid development tool for GUI applications with a small object-orientedLISP interpreter ()
• includes binding (GPLed)
  

• ,the standard widget set for Tcl, for X11, MS Windows, and MacOS.
• , with and [ ,object-oriented extension to the Tcl language and associated mega-widgetset and GUI framework.
• extensionto the Tk toolkit.
• , the Tk InterfaceExtension.
• , Motif binding for Tcl.
• ,"a professional look&feel Toolkit.  Everything is native so noplatform compilation, no compiled extension library needed. In Pure Tcl/Tk.For Unix, Windows and Mac."  ()
• , gtk+ binding for Tcl
• 
  

Pascal

• , "extended function library"
• 's
• , successor to Oberon/F, using Component Pascal, for Win32 and Mac ()
• , Framework for windowed programming under Windows and Linux (GTK) with Free Pascal. (GPLed)
• binding for Java AWT (LGPLed)
• the class libraries for that emulate Delphi, currently built on top og (LGPLed)
  

Modula 2

and "providesthe basis for highly portable programming of interactive applications,since it makes a minimum of assumptions on the properties of the underlyingoperating system and the hardware", available for MacOS, Atari ST (GEM),PC (GEM, MS Windows, Windows NT) and Unix (SUN and IBM RISC). RAMSES is Mac only. Both no cost freeware.

• ,perl binding.
• , Tk binding for Perl.
• , perl bindings for . (LGPLed)
• for
• , Perl bindingsfor (LGPLed) (discounted)
  
• , Perl bindings for version 2
  
• , Perl binding
• , "an extensible Perl toolkit for multi-platform GUI development. Supported platforms include Linux, Windows NT/9x/2K, OS/2, and UNIX/X11 workstations" ()
• 
  

• , Tk-based GUI toolkit for Python, part of standard of Python distribution. Tk-based Additions, bindings under Pythin:
  • (Python MegaWidgets) (also )
• ,Tk binding for Python
• , Python binding
• a Python GUI application framework, and , Python interface to X11 and Motif.
• , a -based GUI class library for Python, for MS Win95/NT and Unix/X11 using .
• and ,Python bindings for and
• , Python bindingfor   (LGPLed)
• , Python binding for (LGPLed)
• X11 client-side API implemented purely in Python (GPLed)
• , Qt binding for Pytbon
• ,Python bindings for
• , binding
• provides access to Java GUI facilities
• , port of tk to Jython
• Java Python Interface (project dead)
  

(including)

• ,a -based toolkit for scheme, for X11,MS Win95/NT, and MacOS
• ,a scheme interpreter with access to
• , bindings for (GPLed)
• , Guile binding for (LGPLed)

Oberon

• , a collection of GUI classes for Oberon-2, for X11 ().

Smalltalk

• , an advanced SmallTalk environment (including GUI support natively) ()

Prolog

( ), for

• , S-lang binding for

,Pike's and bindings (GPLed)

• and , Lua's and   bindings
• , Lua binding
• wxLua, binding for Lua
• , binding
• , a highly portable toolkit for Lua and C, for Windows and X11/Motif.

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Commercial Toolkits

C/C++ oriented

Name	Comments	Unix	Unix	MS Win 95/98	MS Win NT/2000	MS Win 3.1	OS/2 PM		MacOS X
	Microsoft Foundation Class library. probably themost dominant toolkit today	y (3rd party,	y (3rd party, )	y	y	y		y
	Borland Object Windows Library. once the king before comes... ( )			y	y	y	?	?
	Visual Component Library, Borland/Inprise's curent-generation GUI class library			y	y
	(Component Library for Cross-platform) Cross-platform library for Delphi , and CBuilder - Based on top of , works on Win32 and GNU/Linux (x86)	y		y	y
ClassAct										y
	a C++ framework for Mac and Windows	y		y	y	y(?)		y
	a C++ application framework and utility library for single-source Mac/Windows applications			y	y			y	y
	rich DOS-based business application development environment, orginated from Ashton-Tate's Framework product, with FRED. Object-Function-Based, Text-Aware, rapid application development Language
	well established, cross-platform framework  ()		y	y	y	y	y	y
	well established, cross-platform framework. commercialproduct with capabilities similar to	y	y	y	y	y	y
	a full-featured C++ application framework and widget library (SDK) for use with the X Window System	y
(product dropped?)	MacOS API on Unix and Mac OS X (OpenStep)	y						native	y
MacAPP	's Mac framework, probably the first widely available GUI framework.   No longer supported by Apple but third party development at			y (unfinished)	y (unfinished)			y	y
	MS Win API on X11.	y		native	native	native
	"Magic User Interface", popular in community									y
	a shareware GUI Application framework.			y	y	y	y
(product dropped?)	commercial version of OpenLook or Motif look and feel, switchable on the fly	y		unfinished	unfinished
	from /for, also supports OS/400		y (AIX and Sun Solaris only)	y	y		y
	full-featured, strong international language support, high performance GUI, rich widget set, supported worldwide	y	y	y	y	y
OpenStep (Cocoa)	Apple's application API for developing Mac OS X applicationsworking on different platforms			y (?)	y (?)		y (?)		native
	really a User Interface Management System		y	y	y	y	y	y
	included with 's Mac OS compilers.			y	y			y
	an advanced, high quality toolkit. available..Version 3 released.	y		y	y	y		see Mac OS X	y
	An object-oriented modeling and simulation environment for developing and deploying scientific and engineering applications without writing any GUI code. Support Visual C++ and Compaq Visual Fortran.			y	y
SL-GMS	specialized framework for dynamic graphics for monitoringand control Systems, can integrate with other "native" frameworks		y	y	y	?
	no longer available?  (see )	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
	An early commercial GUI framework for Mac							y
(, )	C++ framework for Motif		y	y	y
	"open framework source for rapid development of opennetwork computing applications" such as touchscreen	y (with )	y
	MS Win API on Motif, with support		y	native	native	native
	MS Win API on Motif		y	native	native	native
			y	y	y	y		y
	really a GUI builder. Unix version includes partial i mplementation on Motif		y
	well established, cross-platform framework		y	y	y	y	y	y	y
	well established, cross-platform framework.No longer available.		?	?	?	?	?
	well established, cross-platform framework. supports24 platforms (including MS DOS and Unix text mode)		y	y	y	y	y

Java Oriented

• /'s
• /'s IFC and withvariable look
• 's
• 's JBCL(JavaBeans Component Library) (part of )
• 's (30 day free evaluation, low cost registration required for longer use)
• Visix's Vibe Foundation Classes (powerful GUI framework ispart of a complete Java development system Vibe) ()
• , a framework for providing dynamic graphics in Pure Java applications
• , "a toolkit for building graphical user interfaces (GUI) for simulation programs,"  like these tasks commonly done with MatLab and FORTRAN.
• , XML-based User Interface, Java-based thin client platform that can be accessed anywhere, with any browser

WinForm, the standard C# GUI class library/framework.

Ada

,Ada framework  for Windows 95/NT

, Ada compiler/development environment, including GUI bindings for Windows,X/Motif

Fortran

• , a modern GUI toolset for the Fortran 90/95 programming language, for Windows and Linux
  

LISP

Pascal (including )

VCL(Visual Component Library), the GUI foundation for 'spopular RAD tool , forWin 3.1/95/98/NT, "object-oriented component framework delivers the only truecomponent architecture with over 200 visual and non-visual components thatare completely reusable and extendable"

• , Cross-platform library for Delphi , and CBuilder - Based on top of , works on Win32 and GNU.Linux (x86)
  

, including user interface layer

Fortran

, for Compaq Visual Fortran, An object-oriented modeling and simulation environment for developing and deploying scientific and engineering applications without writing any GUI code. For 32-bit Windows.

Misc

• , GUI system for Prolog, Lisp and C++.
• a Hypercard-typescript language with integrated GUI library, for Unix/X11 and MS Win 3.1/95/NT.

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Related Links

Other GUI Toolkit Pages

• 's page
• 's
• 's page
• The
• 's""
• 's page
• 's by and Kathryn Soraiz.
• , a web site dedicatedto GUI themes (variable look and feel)

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• MW3: Motif on the WorldWide Web: a monster list of Motif and X Window-related resources, includingGUI libraries and tools. Now motifdeveloper.com
• Kenton Lee's : another rich list of X Window/Motifresources.
• 
  

Alternative Windowing Systems

• , an attempt to provide an alternative to .
• , small windowing system for embedded applications
• , small windowing system for embedded applications, for DOS, MS Windows, Unix, Linux SVGAlib, Linux kernel framebuffer (MPLed/GPLed)
• ,  a thin library that provides hardware graphics acceleration, input device handling and abstraction, integrated windowing system with support for translucent windows and multiple display layers on top of the Linux Framebuffer Device. (LGPLed)

Papers on GUI

•   arguing for good GUIstandards for Unix systems in responce to attacks by Microsoft Windows.

Drag and Drop protocols

,a new drag and drop protocol for   supported by , , and .

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Commercial Java Systems

• Vibe, a complete Java deployment system including tools fromcompiler to custom virtual machine. ()

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Organizations for

•  
• , the revitalized organization, successor to the orginal  X Consortium,  maintaining the X Window System.
• , the organization responsible for setting standards in Free OSes.  parent of the
  
• Producer of the , the X Windowserver for PC based UNIX and UNIX-like systems, role generally replaced by X.org
• , organization for promoting the "Open Source" concept
• , the organization managing the project
• , the organization for
• KDE League, for the project.

Important Projects

• • , The GNU Compiler Collection, formerly the GNU C/C++ compiler
    • , formly the experimentalgcc project, now the official gcc
    • , the GNU Java compiler
      
  • , OpenStep clone
• , alsoknown as ,GPLed Unix clone
• , the once most popular web browser in the world, becomes free software on March 31, 1998.
• ,the free browser formally developed by the , now supported by .
• , the free browser/editordeveloped by the
• , BSD-derivedfree Unix
• , BSD-derivedfree Unix
• , BSD-derivedfree Unix
• , formerly StarOffice, now the free software office suite project support by and in association with as the GNOME Office.
• , Java-based open extensible IDE.
  

Free Object-oriented Componet Software Framework

• ,the famous / invention, maybe someday free software. (C++ API)
• OpenParts,'s component framework with ideas from OpenDoc
• Bonobo, 's component framework

Free Java Systems/Compilers

• , from /.( )()
• , a Java virtual machine from ,and just-in-time compiler, works on most Unix's, MS Win 95, NextStep and Amiga (GPLed).
• , a free JVM from the ,the offical GNU Java VM (LGPLed).
• , a GPLed Java source-to-bytecode compiler written in C++.
• , a Java source-to-bytecode compiler, faster Javac replacement
• , a Java source-to-bytecode compiler with non-standard Java language extension,10 to 30 times faster than Javac
• , a Java class file-to-C translator
• , a Java class file-to-C translator, for standalone applications (not applets).
• , the GNU Java compiler

Free C# Systems/Compilers

, an effort to create an Open Source implementation of the .NET Development Framework. Includes: a compiler for the C# language, a runtime for the Common Language Infrastructure and a set of class libraries  (GPLed plus exceptions for linking)

, including , an effort to create an alternative to Microsoft .NET, including C# compiler and run-time libraries. (GPLed plus exceptions for linking)

Library Binding Generation Tool

• (Simplified Warpper and Interface Generator), "a program development tooldesigned to make it easy to build scripting language interfaces to C/C++ programs."

GUI Toolkit Implementation Utility Libraries

,"a library implements a full callback system for use in widget libraries,abstract  interfaces, and general programming."  (LGPLed)

Graphical Desktop Environments

• , Common Desktop Environment, the commercially standard Unix desktop
• , the K(ool) Desktop Environment, based on .
• , GNU Network Object Model Environment, based on .
• , a lightweight desktopenvironment for various UNIX systems, based on
• , the free softwareimplementation of the OpenStep desktop environment
• , an application framework "environment" based on
• , based on
  

Others

• , a 3D graphics library providing an Open GL API, licensed under BSD (X11)-style license and now part of
• ,the OpenGL Utility Toolkit, a window system independent toolkit for writingOpenGL programs
• , The VisualizationToolkit (C++ API) ()
• , the Image Manipulation Program, a Photoshop-style painting program, licensedunder GPL.
• , a fork of GIMP for movie editing.
  
• , a set of powerful image manipulation/processing programs. Functions availableto other programs via a rich .(BSD-style)
• libart , /'s advanced 2D graphics library (LGPLed)
• , a C++, easy-to-use 2D graphics library (BSD-style)

• , a LGPLed/MPLed  "vector graphics library designed to provide high-quality display and print output. Currently available output targets include the X Window System, OpenGL (via ), Quartz, win32, in-memory image buffers, PNG images, PostScript, and PDF files. Some of these backends are still experimental. Cairo is designed to produce identical output on all output media while taking advantage of display hardware acceleration when available (eg. through the X Render Extension or OpenGL)." Possibly the standard 2D graphic API on free OSes.
  

• (, a powerful C++-based advanced 2d graphics rendering library  ()
  
• , providing direct video framebuffer accessfor fast rendering, supports Linux, Win95/98/NT/2000, BeOS, MacOS, Solaris,IRIX, and FreeBSD. () 
• , now free software. 
• , advanced object-oriented 3D graphics framework, now free software. offering a comprehensive solution to interactive graphics programming problems. It presents a programming model based on a 3D scene database that dramatically simplifies graphics programming.  (LGPLed)
• and , Java-based gesture toolkit that allow ink gesture inputs to drive GUIs (BSD licensed)
  
  
   

Companies developing/supporting

Other Free Software websites

• , aweb site providing general Free Software/Open Source information
• , general discussion site for free software developers

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