Java > Scala -> new thread: GUI for D

Marco Leise Marco.Leise at gmx.de
Sat Dec 3 00:39:54 PST 2011


Am 03.12.2011, 07:14 Uhr, schrieb Alexey Prokhin  
<alexey.prokhin at yandex.ru>:

> a wrote:
>
>> QML looks like it is (currently ?) targeted at the kind of GUI  
>> programming
>> when you make your own custom widgets for everything. It only provides  
>> the
>> most basic components such as rectangles, text, and images. There isn't,
>> say, a button components - you have to make one using a Rectangle and a
>> MouseArea. One consequence of this is that typical GUI programming is  
>> much
>> slower. Another consequence is that you can't build GUIs that look  
>> native
>> on multiple platforms. QML is probably great for some things, but it is
>> not a replacement for GUI  toolkits such as Qt.
> No, there are widgets with native look and feel for QML:
> http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/03/10/qml-components-for-desktop/ . Right  
> now
> it is a research project, but it most likely will be a part of the  
> upcoming
> Qt5.

That stuff looks convincingly native on Gnome and Windows.


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