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akie on Jan 7, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: An acceptable cross-platform GUI toolkit?

If coding in Java is an option, I would highly recommend SWT (http://www.eclipse.org/swt/). It's the toolkit that was used to build Eclipse, and it has a very 'native' look & feel (click the link for examples).

Plus, Java itself is cross-platform. Might be just what you're looking for.

safetytrick on Jan 7, 2009 [–]

Java GUI's always seem just a little bit unresponsive, an irritating latency with every small move you make. This is my biggest complaint with eclipse and every other java app I've ever used.

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