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 This ebook is organized as a series of themed chapters. Most of these chapters consist of a set of items, with each item covering a specific topic supporting the chapter's overall theme. Early in the book, you will find sections that contain items presenting best practices that must be communicated to the entire development organization, including management, development, and testing. Later chapters cover software-engineering topics that management should be aware of, but these chapters have been written primarily for readers who will be implementing the code. In all, there are 23 items presented in these initial chapters.The implementation of a user interface is a major concern in the development of cross-platform desktop applications. Item 23 serves to introduce the topic. The final two chapters of the book are therefore devoted to cross-platform GUI-related topics. The first of these chapters provides a comprehensive introduction and tutorial to the wxWidgets crossplatform GUI toolkit. After reading my introduction to wxWidgets, you may want to check out Prentice Hall's detailed treatment on the subject, Cross-Platform GUI Programming with wxWidgets, by Julian Smart, et al. wxWidgets is not the only cross-platform GUI toolkit available for use in your projects. Another capable, and very popular cross-platform GUI toolkit, Qt, is not covered in this book. The last chapter of this book, Chapter 9, "Developing a Cross-Platform GUI Toolkit in C++," starts with an introduction to the cross-platform GUI toolkit, XPToolkit, which is a major component of Netscape and Mozilla's cross-platform browser suite. It then goes on to detail the implementation of a toolkit I created especially for this book, Trixul. Trixul has many of the same attributes that made up the Netscape/Mozilla XPToolkit we used at Netscape to construct cross-platform GUIs. Both XPToolkit and Trixul, for example, allow you to describe the user interface of an application in XML and JavaScript, both support a component-based model that allows the user interface to call into shared libraries written in C or C++, and both are highly portable. Developers should plan to read the entire book, although you might want to invert the recommendations made here for technical managers, and skim what they are supposed to read carefully, and read carefully what they are supposed to skim. If your focus is user interface development, I recommend reading Items 22 and 23, and Chapter 8, "wxWidgets." If you are interested in GUI toolkit internals, or plan to help out with the development of Trixul, you will definitely want to read Chapter 9, "Developing a Cross-Platform GUI Toolkit in C++." Download free ebooks of c++: Cross-Platform Development in C++
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