>And arguably my use of wxWidgets made it not even "real real" Doesn't wxWidgets wrap and abstract over the native APIs for each respective platform? Seems re

>And arguably my use of wxWidgets made it not even "real real" Doesn't wxWidgets wrap and abstract over the native APIs for each respective platform? Seems real enough to me. I once decided I'd write a GUI in pure win32 (when Windows 7 was new) and the experience really, really sucked. In my book there's no shame in using a GUI library any more than a socket library.