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 And the images are so horrible outdated.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 Okay, so "horrible" was more about outdated than broken or anything.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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