WideStudio

Wide Studio is a free Integrated Development Environment (IDE ) with accompanying toolkit for creating GUI applications for a wide range of operating systems. For this, it uses its own program library for platform -independent graphical user interfaces, the Multi-Platform Widget Toolkit ( MWT).

The development can be implemented using the C, C , Perl, Ruby, Python and Objective CAML programming languages. Wide Studio is under the MIT license, so you can use it free of charge for personal and commercial purposes.

Supported platforms:

  • Linux ( for development )
  • BSD ( for development )
  • Mu- CLinux ( X11 is not required)
  • Mac OS X ( for development )
  • T- Engine
  • Zaurus ( Emblix Linux X11 is not required)
  • ITRON
  • Solaris ( for development )
  • Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP ( for development )
  • Windows CE

Benefits

  • Plattformunabhängigigkeit the IDE and the libraries used
  • Automatic creation of Makefile

Disadvantages

  • Relatively unknown in Europe
  • The GUI is not very appealing.
  • The API is inconsistent.
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