dmd support for IDEs

Don nospam at nospam.com
Mon Oct 12 00:39:33 PDT 2009


Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> Jeremie Pelletier" <jeremiep at gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:hats2b$as0$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> Lutger wrote:
>>> Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>> ...
>>>> As far as I know neither Qt(d) or gtkD uses native controls on platforms
>>>> other than linux, which to me is unacceptable. The look especially on 
>>>> mac.
>>> Qt used to try and look like native controls, but now it uses them 
>>> directly.
>> It has pros and cons, Firefox too has the native look and feel without 
>> using the native controls, so it saves on the overhead of tons of GDI 
>> handles and can render the entire GUI in cairo.
> 
> I use FF a lot and umm...no it doesn't. Not remotely. It's always stood out 
> as every bit of a blatant GTK app as GAIM, GIMP, or Thunderbird. As soon as 
> I can find a browser with equivilents too all my essential hacks (*cough* 
> extensions) and *real* controls (which rules out IE and Opera. And 
> Chrome/Safari... AH HA HA HA!), then I'm ditching this garbage. 

Are you talking about FF 3.5? It's a really poor product. Crashes all 
the time, has some terrible UI misfeatures. I'm really amazed they 
shipped it in that condition.



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