Cross platform desktop application?

There are quite a few options available for you, but your choice may depend on how complex your desktop application is.

There are quite a few options available for you, but your choice may depend on how complex your desktop application is: Medium to high level complixity: Here you may want to go with desktop application frameworks like SWT Eclipse RCP) or Netbeans Platform. Ofcourse you also have low level toolkits like Gtk, Swing, SWT, etc. RIA (Rich Internet Applications). There are various available in this space: Titanium Desktop (Its really good, I've used it myself) Adobe AIR (not as powerful as titanium) Silverlight (don't know much about it, and don't know if its really cross-platform).

Don't discount QT, wxWidget, Tcl/Tk, and a slew of other cross-platform GUI toolkits out there.

Since you mention c#, you can create desktop GUI application in Mono c# Gtk that can target both windows and linux. For more info checkout this Cheers.

We're doing x-compiled Silverlight / WPF. Working well so far...

You need to define which platforms you mean to include. If you just mean windows/mac/linux than any of those (even c#/silverlight) will be okay and you should choose what you know best. If you want a little more reach (proprietary unix, potential expansions into smartphones, etc) your options are narrowed down a little.

Sounds funny... – abatishchev Aug 12 '10 at 7:19 Flash is the most cross-platform platform currently available. – Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen Aug 12 '10 at 7:26.

Obviously you need to consider which platforms to support, if your target is Windows and Mac, you should consider Silverlight as an alternative. I'm working on a rich app to manage books, videos, games and more. My app is built on Silverlight 4 and will be optimized for running both inside the browser and out-of-browser.

With Silverlight 4, you have the ability to make custom chrome-windows, without the standard border. Silverlight and Flash are probably your best two alternatives, but remember that they are resource intensive. Some of the more popular Adobe Air apps hogs memory from the computer.

You need to consider your own personal skillset, which programming languages are you familiar with? If you already know a language, it will take less time to learn the UI-framework with your platform of choice. If you need to learn both the programming/scripting language and the UI-framework, you will likely be less productive, at least in the beginning.

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