GUI library for D

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-04-06 13:38, Matthias Pleh wrote:
> Am 06.04.2011 11:40, schrieb Nick Sabalausky:
>> "Matthias Pleh"<jens at konrad.net> wrote in message
>> news:inh91t$1854$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>> Am 06.04.2011 09:00, schrieb Jacob Carlborg:
>>>>
>>>> I think gtkD is out of the question since it's not using native
>>>> controls. Don't know about QtD, if I recall correctly it, at least,
>>>> looks quite native. But I would guess it would too hard to find whole
>>>> int that, specially on Mac OS X.
>>>
>>>
>>> Qt (and so QtD) use some native controls for Dialogs, e.g.: FilePicker,
>>> colorPicker, ... but most controls are drawn by the PaintEnginge. But Qt
>>> make really good job in imitating the native Theme. (except OSX,
>>> which is
>>> a little bit special)
>>>
>>
>> My understanding is that Qt also has a compile-time flag that will
>> make it
>> actually use the real Win32 controls.
>>
>>
>
> No! When compiling the Qt-library, you can specify a flag for the theme
> to build. The controls appears then with this theme.
>
> On windows you can easaly test this, with Spy++.
> I've just created a simple window with
> QHBoxLayout,QGridLayout,QGroupbox,Qlabel,QLineEdit,QTextEdit.
> But ther is only one win32-control and this is the main-window!
> You can see this also on the traffic of the windowsmessages.
> This is so on Windows, maybe Qt use more native controls on other
> platforms?
>
> The problem with OSX is, as I know, that some controls not only look
> different, but are also different arranged, and this make it more
> difficult to emulate.
>
> °Matthias

DWT handles that fine.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg