Subj : Re: What Visual IDEs available for Windows programming?
To   : comp.programming
From : Phlip
Date : Mon Sep 05 2005 05:55 am

typingcat wrote:

> How many Visual IDE's are there which I can use for programmiing
> Windows GUI programs? Like, Visual Basic,Delphi, Visual C#...

"Visual" is all but a trademark of MS. (Maybe it all-the-way is...)

You are asking "how many IDEs can paint GUIs", and there are zillions, from 
Glade to VisualAge Smalltalk.

> I'd like to know which can provide the following features
> 1)Could create Unicode application

All of them. Unicode is in the mind of the beholder.

You can use UTF-8, with certain code-pages, or can use wide strings and use 
UTF-16. Either way, you yourself must figure out where and how to use these 
strings, and the only GUI Toolkit question is which screen painters accept 
Unicode. They should all at least accept UTF-8.

> 2)Doesn't require any framework installation for users.

None of them.

You got to pay to play. If you want your users to use more than one EXE that 
share the same GUI Toolkit, each EXE should not be bloated with a copy of 
the toolkit. It ought to be in a DLL. (Modern computers have enough storage 
to carry much bloat around, but that's no excuse to clone the bloat of an 
_entire_ GUI Toolkit).

You are really asking "how to avoid installing the peesashit .NET framework, 
which is a miniature operating system strapped on top of the real one". Then 
the answer is "all the other GUI Toolkits come with a harmless DLL or two to 
supply all their needs". Except Java.

Now state your project's actual requirements, not its negative ones, so we 
can help pick a GUI Toolkit.

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  Phlip
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