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Just to expand on what derby said, It is going to depend on the platform you need to support.

Is this going to be a client program that is copied around to users machines?
Will it be for Windows, Xwindows, command line, Web?

Each of these will make a huge difference in the style of program you will be writing. Personally, if more than one platform is involved, go web based. Even if there isn't more than one platform now, there might be later. Password protect the site, and then it can be accessed from anywhere that has a net connection and a browser.

If it will be installed on each users machine, then it will most likely require some sort of network support in order to perform it's action on a remote machine. In a web based GUI, you don't have all of the control of a local program. It's hard to do things like populating menus based on actions, and changing other elements of the GUI on the fly. It can be done, but requires page reloads to change the content. These may, or may not play a roll in your particular case. Just something to keep in mind.

In reply to Re: GUI Opinion by erasei
in thread GUI Opinion by RollyGuy

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