CGui Toolchain for Highly Customized GUI Development for Multiple Platforms

Abstract: Highly customized graphical user interfaces play a major role in today's software applications. There exist many technologies that support developing them. But these technologies demand writing a significant amount of unintuitive code to implement customized graphical user interfaces. Also, the support of these technologies become very limited when developing user interfaces for multiple platforms. In this paper we present a new technology to develop highly customized graphical interfaces in a more effective and efficient method. In the first part of this paper we explore the existing graphical user interface development technologies and points out their strengths and limitations. Then we introduce CGui toolchain addressing the identified limitations. Finally, we evaluate the effectiveness of CGui toolchain in comparison to two existing representative technologies that supports highly customized graphical user interface development.