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Re: Ask HN: How do you create a cross-platform GUI without using Electron?

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Post by yellowapple » Mon, Sep 13, 2021, 8:04 PM UTC

mherrmann wrote: post #91

yellowapple wrote: post #88

I've had decent experiences with Python and Qt5. Windows was historically the painful part, but FBS¹ makes that a lot less painful nowadays. Tk also works reasonably well if you don't need the features and native integration that Qt offers (and I'm pretty sure FBS can handle Tkinter apps just fine). The .NET ecosystem is another solid choice for cross-platform desktop app development (and nowadays even mobile, too).…

fbs author here; thank you for the mention!

No problem, and thank you for fbs!

Re: Ask HN: How do you create a cross-platform GUI without using Electron?

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Post by mikewarot » Tue, Sep 14, 2021, 9:27 AM UTC

mikewarot wrote: post #106

I've decided to dust off my somewhat rusty Lazarus, GIT and GitHub skills to build a Lazarus application to follow this thread using the HN API hosted by firebase. You mentioned getting data to a GUI application using the web, this seemed like an ideal small project that could give you a firmer idea of just how Lazarus might fit your needs. Notes: I've never done anything like this (https/json) before but I suspect I…

Update #1 - there is FAR far more going structure wise in threaded comments than I first realized, but I eventually managed to just read the raw text.

Formatting, adding dates, etc... will be a bit more still.

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