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What is WideStudio?

WideStudio is an open source, Integrated Development Environment for desktop applications purely made in Japan. This enables you to develop GUI applications that can run on Windows95/98/Me/NT/2000/Xp/Vista, WindowsCE, Linux, FreeBSD, SOLARIS, MacOSX(w/X11), BTRON, T-Engine, mu-CLinux(wo/X11) in various programming languages such as C/C++, Java, Perl, Ruby, Python,Objective Caml

Since an application is build on MWT(Multi-Platform Widget Toolkit) which runs on multiple platforms, WideStudio applications are all source compatible between these platforms. If you developped an application in C/C++ language, you only need to re-compile the source code to run on a different platform in as native code.

WideStudio Just fits it!

* You can develop desktop applications easily and free of charge!
WideStudio is an inovative tool to develop an application visualy across multiple platforms. You can design a GUI application using software parts - "Component", and reduce development process and cost efficiently. Also, WideStudio provides an IDE, runtime libraries, and compilers, all free to everyone. Now you don't need to buy an expensive IDE tool prohibiting novice programmers to start development.
* WideStudio leads GUI in Ubiquitous Computing
WideStudio is capable of developing applications available from large server to an embedded device. You can develop GUI based applications that can run on T-Engine, WindowsCE, ITRON which supports Ubiquitous computing as well as Win32, Linux, Solaris, MacOSX, BTRON. Thus, applications you develop with WS have no need to aware platform differences such as Windows, WindowsCE, Linux, FreeBSD, SOLARIS, MacOSX, T-Engine, or BTRON
Also you will be able to experience sufficient performance on low-spec CPU or with very limited memory because WideStudio GUI processing runs as a CPU-native code resulting in low cost development for embedded devices - WideStudio leads state-of-the-art GUI application development in Ubiquitous Computing.

* WideStudio is Open Source
WideStudio has been developed by WideStudio Development Team aiming at sharing software development techniques and benefits among everyone with its complete source code being available.
This software has an X11/MIT type open source license which does not require users to disclose applicaiton source code, which means anapplication developed with WideStuido can be used commercially. Also WideStudio source code is completely developed and managed by WideStudio Development Team to maintain free of risk from lawsuits by third parties regarding copyright violation - users who want to make their application commercially avalable, need not to scare of lawsuits at all.

WideStudio Features

WideStudio enables you to create a large GUI based application visually and viscerally, quick and easily by the following features.

* Can create Applications using C/C++, Java(since v3.80-6), Perl (since v3.20), Ruby (since v3.20) or Python (since v3.20),Objective Caml(since v3.90-2)
* Platform-independent integrated desktop application environment
* Comes with MWT: Multi-platform Widget Toolkit
* Runs as optimized, native binary on embedded devices, ubiquitous devices, home information appliance
* Visualized Window Editor enables you to design Window arrangement
* Automated source code generator in the application builder
* Event-driven style minimizes source development
* Project management feature eases development work
* Automatic makefile generation and build feature
* Extension class library build feature and class library import feature assure scalability
* You can choose your favorite editor for coding with WideStudio
* Multi-encoding feature absorbs encoding differences between platforms
Various encoding systems such as EUC-JP,SJIS,EUC-KR,EUC-CN,UNICODE(UTF8) are supported