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Want a Program Made and Compatible with Mac/PC. Help?

by The Oilman
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I want to develop a very tiny and very simple program that runs on both Mac and PC.

I want to design it and then outsource it to someone on Scriptlance.

Is there a programming language that does this?

Or is there one that can easily be converted to mac and PC?
#compatible #mac or pc #made #program
  • Profile picture of the author Neil Morgan
    My choice for this kind of thing is the Adobe Air platform.

    rich Internet applications | Adobe AIR

    The user needs to install the Air runtime but that can be done seamlessly as part of the installation of your program. And if they already have it from the installation of another application then they don't need to download it again.

    The development tool is Adobe Flex.

    Some example applications that use this technology are Twhirl, Seesmic, eBay Desktop.

    Cheers,

    Neil
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  • Profile picture of the author xiaophil
    Originally Posted by The Oilman View Post

    ...very tiny and very simple program that runs on both Mac and PC.
    Do you mean you want a small program executable?

    Take a look at Qt 4.5. The program source can be compiled (so small and fast) for Windows, Mac and Linux as well as embedded platforms.

    LGPL'd so license-free for commercial applications.

    Example well known apps are Skype and Google Earth.

    Qt - A cross-platform application and UI framework


    Phil
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  • Profile picture of the author Brad Gosse
    Real Basic is what many app designers use and it makes Mac/PC versions
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  • Profile picture of the author Andrew E.
    If it's a simple program, I recommend Java - as it runs anywhere and everywhere.
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