Component Library for Cross Platform (CLX), is a cross-platform visual component-based framework for developing Microsoft Windows and Linux applications. It is developed by Borland for use in its Kylix, Delphi, and C++ Builder software development environment. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, the lead section of this article may need to be expanded. ... Linux (IPA pronunciation: ) is a Unix-like computer operating system. ... Borland Software Corporation is a software company headquartered in Austin, Texas. ... Kylix is a Linux version of the Borland Corporations Delphi and C++ Builder development environments for Microsoft Windows. ... Delphi is the primary programming language of Borland Delphi. ... C++ Builder, often abbreviated BCB, is a popular rapid application development (RAD) environment produced by Borland for writing programs in the C++ programming language. ...

Its aim was to replace the popular Microsoft Windows-only Visual Component Library, VCL. CLX was based on Qt by Trolltech. The API of CLX almost completely followed VCL. It was envisioned that existing applications using VCL would be recompiled with CLX. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, the lead section of this article may need to be expanded. ... In computing, VCL (Visual Component Library) is a visual component-based framework for developing Microsoft Windows applications, developed by Borland for use in its Delphi and C++Builder software development environment. ... In computer programming, the Qt toolkit is a cross-platform graphical widget toolkit for the development of GUI programs. ... Trolltech (formerly known as Quasar Technologies) is a computer software company from Oslo, Norway. ... The software that provides the functionality described by an API is said to be an implementation of the API. The API itself is abstract, in that it specifies an interface and does not get involved with implementation details. ...

However, due to lacklustre performance on Windows, subtle differences from VCL, and bugs; it didn't became the expected successor to VCL. Commercial failure of Kylix stopped further development of CLX.

In terms of object-oriented approach, CLX forms an object hierarchy where the TObject class serves as the base class. All other classes inherit or indirectly inherit the TObject class. This is a common approach shared by the Java programming language, Smalltalk, and many other object-oriented programming languages. Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a computer programming paradigm in which a software system is modeled as a set of objects that interact with each other. ... In computer science, a superclass is a class from which other classes are derived. ... Java is a programming language originally developed by Sun Microsystems and released in 1995. ... For other uses, see Small talk. ... An object-oriented programming language (also called an OO language) is one that allows or encourages, to some degree, object-oriented programming techniques such as encapsulation, inheritance, interfaces, and polymorphism. ...

See also

• Visual Component Library
• software components