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The Decline and Fall of Java on the Desktop Part 1 (1999-2005)

Mender.io Shelf (Maui Applications) wxWidgets
  1. Mender is a secure and robust end-to-end over-the-air (OTA) software update manager for IoT devices. Mender makes it easy to deploy updates to a large number of devices by providing efficiency and risk tolerant OTA deployments.

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  2. Shelf is a convergent document viewer that supports PDF and EPUB files. With Shelf, you can organize your document collection by creating tags, like other Maui applications.
    > Today, we see a much friendlier Microsoft. It's wonderful > It's not like Microsoft was trying to create MAUI back in 2000 Today, in 2022, Microsoft still tries to uses the MAUI name even though it is directly the name of a pre-existing unrelated GUI toolkit (https://mauikit.org/). Much friendlier my arse.

    #PDF Tools #PDF Readers And Editors #PDF Editor 19 social mentions

  3. wxWidgets: Cross-Platform GUI Library
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    > Java Swing still lets you make native-looking-and-feeling apps (with some care). I don't know of any new GUI frameworks that let you do the same. That's the whole raison d'ĂȘtre of the (C++) wxWidgets toolkit. [0] It fully commits to using native GUI widgets, rather than impersonating them. (That is, it wraps various other toolkits.) As others have pointed out, the other major cross-platform toolkits (Qt, GTK) also do a pretty good job. [0] https://wxwidgets.org/.

    #Development Tools #Rapid Application Development #Cross-Platform Development 6 social mentions

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