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library A library is a collection of Book, books, and possibly other Document, materials and Media (communication), media, that is accessible for use by its members and members of allied institutions. Libraries provide physical (hard copies) or electron ...
packages implementing a
graphical user interface A graphical user interface, or GUI, is a form of user interface that allows user (computing), users to human–computer interaction, interact with electronic devices through Graphics, graphical icon (computing), icons and visual indicators such ...
(GUI) platform-independent GUI library (PIGUI). These can be used to develop
software Software consists of computer programs that instruct the Execution (computing), execution of a computer. Software also includes design documents and specifications. The history of software is closely tied to the development of digital comput ...
that can be ported to multiple
computing platform A computing platform, digital platform, or software platform is the infrastructure on which software is executed. While the individual components of a computing platform may be obfuscated under layers of abstraction, the ''summation of the requi ...
s with no change to its
source code In computing, source code, or simply code or source, is a plain text computer program written in a programming language. A programmer writes the human readable source code to control the behavior of a computer. Since a computer, at base, only ...
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No longer available or supported

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IBM International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 countries. It is ...
, Discontinued by IBM in 2007. , - , AppWare ,
Novell Novell, Inc. () was an American software and services company headquartered in Provo, Utah, that existed from 1980 until 2014. Its most significant product was the multi-platform network operating system known as NetWare. Novell technolog ...
, Has been de-emphasized (commonly viewed as dropped) by Novell , - , Open Interface , Neuron Data , One of the earliest PIGUI supported DOS, macOS, OS/2, VMS, Microsoft Windows 3.0 , - , Zinc Application Framework , Professional Software Associates , May still be supported, but no new sales


See also

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List of widget toolkits This article provides a list of widget toolkits (also known as GUI frameworks), used to construct the graphical user interface (GUI) of programs, organized by their relationships with various operating systems. Low-level widget toolkits Integrat ...
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List of rich web application frameworks : ''For a list of mobile only frameworks see Multiple phone web based application framework''. Below is a list of rich web application frameworks: {, class="wikitable sortable" style="width: auto; table-layout: fixed; text-align: center;" , - s ...


Further reading

* Richard Chimera,
Evaluation of Platform Independent User Interface Builders
', March 1993, Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory University of Maryland


References

Computer libraries Cross-platform software