In article <3DA### [at] starmanee>,
 Vahur Krouverk <vkr### [at] starmanee> wrote:

> Why not? Why not to implement cross-platform UI by using some 
> (scriping??) language? I guess suppirting Windows/Linux/Unix/MacOS 
> should be sufficient and there is quite a number of tools for such task: 
> Tk/Tcl (or whatever it was called, never can't remember it :-), Python 
> (Yea, I know, that some here hate Python, but Pyvon seems to be nice 
> step in direction of cross-platformness), Java with JNI for interface 
> with POV-Ray core etc.

I covered that...the results are usually just horrible. Tune things to 
look good on one platform, and it looks awful on all others...different 
interface conventions, different look and feel, etc...you end up having 
to make platform-specific versions anyway.

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Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet>
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