CROSS-PLATFORM GUI'S : PURPOSE

there are too many specialty platforms
no one platform outshines the rest
users want to be able to take advantage of specific-platform capabilities and their benefits
- happy workers
- access to specialty software
- having the most efficient tool for the job
therefore, organizations will always have a mix of platforms
therefore, developer's will have extra work to develop applications that run on more than one platform.

separate the UI from the application
integrate the UI with the platform to achieve the native look and feel
lets the developer focus on the application and not the complexities of the GUI
reduces the developers workload
- only 1 source module to develop & maintain
- PIGUI creates source code, resource files and makefiles for the target platform.
  The developer recompiles and relinks the code on the target platform.