Is Adobe AIR a good engine as GUI to develop Windows application
Someone asked on Stack Overflow:
I want to develop a photo browser application in Windows platfrom, the UI should be very cool and has 3D effects,Adobe AIR is a good engine as GUI, but I don’t know how to integrate my C and C++ engines which I worte before into Adobe AIR, it seems the engine can’t hold ActiveX? What can I do? Thanks.
I posted the following answer, which was chosen as the accepted answer and received 4 upvotes:
If you are windows only, something like WPF is probably a better option, since you will be able to leverge any old C/C++ libraries you have throuhg PInvoke.
Air is best suited to using data with web services.
Notable comments
Nate (1 upvotes): I have never had issues with the performance of WPF. I’ve run WPF apps on tricked out gaming rigs and netbooks and never had major issues.
Originally posted on Stack Overflow — 4 upvotes (accepted answer). Licensed under CC BY-SA.
