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Wehtam_
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Posted: 26th Mar 2011 22:52
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Hey, another question which i'm posting out to the enlightened among us ( which doesn't include me! )

I wish to create a rather specific program to help with my workflow, nothing too radical, but I need the program to run on both Mac and PC. I'm half tempted to pay a developer to create it, but I would like to do a little research of my own.
Generally it seems that my options are either Java or Adobe Air. Can anyone else add to my list of langauages/programs which can create executables for both OS ?

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Interplanetary Funk
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Posted: 26th Mar 2011 22:58
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I'd go with java, it's the only free cross platform (ish) language I can think of besides HTML5, in which case you could use your application everywhere, though I suppose you could do that with a java applet as well.

Alternatively, find a cross platform GUI wrapper for C++ and that way depending on what you need to do you would need very few OS specific calls.

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RalphY
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Posted: 26th Mar 2011 23:19 Edited at: 26th Mar 2011 23:24
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There's also the option of C# and Visual Basic using Mono. Personally I'd probably go for Java though when cross platform is an issue.

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Slow Programmer
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Posted: 26th Mar 2011 23:59
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Real Studio is a good option for cross-platform development.

http://realsoftware.com/

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bitJericho
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Posted: 27th Mar 2011 12:17
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crispex
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Posted: 27th Mar 2011 17:51
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I'd simply go with C++. If it's a console application it'll work across all, if it's a GUI based application, learn the framework for each system.

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Posted: 27th Mar 2011 19:08
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You'll still have to recompile for each system at the very least.

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bitJericho
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Posted: 27th Mar 2011 20:27 Edited at: 27th Mar 2011 20:28
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of course, it depends on the application you're developing, but learning and compiling to different frameworks in c++ sounds like a huge pain when you could use a basic language (purebasic) using the exact same built-in commands and compile them each in their own platform and call it a great 2 hour learning experience

This, of course, is dependent on the language supporting what you need to do. There are some things that are a pain to do in Purebasic

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David R
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Posted: 27th Mar 2011 21:45
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Java if it's a desktop app mainly focused on UI

Otherwise, code the logic in C++ and either use a cross platform UI toolkit, or do a win32 UI on windows and use the C++ as a backend for an ObjC app on mac.

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Posted: 29th Mar 2011 08:32
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If you take the C++ route, use Qt. Compiles on Linux too!

http://qt.nokia.com/

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