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Asked: 2026-05-12T20:06:44+00:00

Imagine you are on Windows 7 and you have to write a GUI for

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Imagine you are on Windows 7 and you have to write a GUI for a GRAPHIC application, (like a terrain editor, mesh viewer ..) which involves a great use of DirectX and OpenGL (so written in native C++).
If your goal is a multi-platform software then you should go for wxWidgets, but imagine you’re doing a Windows’ only app…what would your choice be? and why?

I’m supposing that the application would work on both XP and Vista/7 and obviously in the WPF case the UI will be managed, but it will call native functions by a C++/CLI proxy-like class
( will “bouncing” from managed-native and native-managed cause performance issues? ).

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    RAD Studio can also make the job

    • Enhanced in 2010! VCL (Visual
      Component Library) for rapidly
      building Microsoft Windows
      applications now includes seamless
      Windows 7 support, and graceful
      fallback compatibility with Windows
      Vista, XP, and 2000
    • Enhanced in 2010! Windows Vista and
      Windows 7 API headers to fully
      exploit the latest Windows
      capabilities
    • New in 2010! Support for Windows 7
      Direct2D API

    you can also make WPF with Delphi Prism and wxWidgets with twinforms

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