From: thefadden@gmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, May 30, 2023 at 6:36:48 PM UTC-7, Christopher G. Mason wrote:   
   > Would something like wxWidgets be helpful here? There exists C#/.NET    
   > bindings.....   
      
   I used wxWidgets for a project once.  They based their design on Windows MFC,   
   which is what I used for the original CiderPress.   
      
   The world seems to be moving to XAML-style user interface coding.  There's a   
   bit of a learning cliff, but once you get used to them they're actually kind   
   of nice to work with.  I figured the best bet for writing something that will   
   be usable for another    
   20 years is to embrace recent trends.  (CiderPress was first released March   
   2003.)   
      
   I'm not sure it's still the case that native controls are the best.  GUI   
   toolkits can use hardware-accelerated rendering to provide a consistent   
   interface across platforms without the speed hit that used to be associated   
   with doing that.  There are some    
   things that you'd like to be the same across all apps on a platform, like file   
   dialogs and font pickers, but WPF doesn't exactly provide those anyway.  (20   
   years later and there still isn't a dialog that lets you pick both files and   
   folders... and the    
   folder picker is still awful.)   
      
   In any event, the command-line tools should work on most modern systems, and   
   won't break down when the next great GUI reimagining comes along.  Sector   
   editing is kind of tedious, but you can't have everything. :-)   
      
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