wxC & wxD

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Tue Nov 29 23:22:58 PST 2011


On 2011-11-29 22:24, Brad Anderson wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com
> <mailto:doob at me.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 2011-11-29 18:06, Anders F Björklund wrote:
>
>         Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>
>             All the Mac OS X images on this site look horrible:
>             http://www.wxwidgets.org/__about/screensh.htm
>             <http://www.wxwidgets.org/about/screensh.htm>
>
>             But that might be a problem with the applications and not
>             the toolkit.
>             And the images are so horrible outdated. What version of Mac
>             OS X is
>             that, 10.3?
>
>
>         Okay, so "horrible" was more about outdated than broken or anything.
>
>
>     Well, yes. But that's the whole point, otherwise GTK+ would be an
>     option.
>
>
>         Most of the wxD screenshots are from Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" (2006).
>
>
>     Yeah, they look a bit better.
>
>
>             BTW, how is the support for Mac OS X specific "widgets" that
>             are usually
>             not available on other platforms, like:
>
>             * Dialog sheets
>             * Unified toolbar
>             * Adding menu items to the dock icon
>             * Adding menu items to the application menu (or what it's
>             called)
>
>
>         It's in the nature of cross-platform toolkits to poorly support
>         such.
>
>
>     Unfortunately yes. But I see know reason why there can't be a
>     corss-platform toolkit with additional platform specific widgets or
>     similar.
>
>     This is something I would like to see in a cross-platform toolkit.
>
>     http://mschrag.blogspot.com/__2008/06/maclipse.html
>     <http://mschrag.blogspot.com/2008/06/maclipse.html>
>
>     When a widget is emulated, provide look and feel that would fit for
>     the specific platform.
>
>
> wxWidgets tries to do just that.  It is done by programmers though so
> sometimes they don't quite capture the look.
>
>
>         The sheets and toolbars should work in wxOSX/Cocoa (but not in
>         wxMac)
>
>
>     Ok, I see.
>
>
>             I tried to run the demo, it requires Rosetta, that was a
>             couple of
>             versions ago of Mac OS X.
>
>
>         All but the latest should run it OK, but I guess you need to
>         compile.
>
>         It looks like:
>         http://www.algonet.se/~afb/wx/__WidgetsDemo-MacOSX.png
>         <http://www.algonet.se/~afb/wx/WidgetsDemo-MacOSX.png>
>
>         # 10.4 has wxWidgets 2.5.3
>         # 10.5 has wxWidgets 2.8.4
>         # 10.6 has wxWidgets 2.8.8
>         # 10.7 does not ship with wxWidgets.
>
>         --anders
>
>
>     Yeah, I've tried it out now, looks pretty Ok. But comparing that
>     widget demo to SWT is basically no difference. SWT looks a bit more
>     polished, but that might be the widget demo and not the toolkit.
>
>     Does wxWdiget support:
>
>     * Internationalization
>
>
> Yes.
>
>     * Accessibility
>
>
> I would imagine this is more of an OS level function so...probably?
>
>     * Date widget
>
>
> Yes.
>
>     * Validation of input fields
>
>
> Yes.
>
>
>
>     --
>     /Jacob Carlborg
>
>

That's good to hear.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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