An application framework is used to standardize structure of an application for a specific development environment (such as an operating system or a web application). Application frameworks provide tools for implementing standard application elements, which is especially useful for GUI development.

A number of frameworks can build cross-platform applications for Linux, Macintosh, and Windows from the same source code, such as Qt, wxWidgets aka wxGtk , Fox FOX toolkit or Eclipse Eclipse RCP.

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