WPFfor d

Adam Wilson flyboynw at gmail.com
Wed Feb 20 11:59:27 PST 2013


On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:44:26 -0800, Craig Dillabaugh  
<cdillaba at cg.scs.carleton.ca> wrote:

> On Wednesday, 20 February 2013 at 16:56:11 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
>> On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 23:37:58 -0800, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:
>>
> clip
>>>
>>> Most in most tool kits you can override a drawing function or specify  
>>> some properties to change to look of a control.
>>>
>>
>> Most allow you to tweak certain aspects, not remove the entire  
>> rendering output and start over. I've never found any OS widget kit  
>> that allows completely and total control of the widget at the pixel  
>> level.
>
> In Qt anyways, you can use QPainter:
>
> http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qpainter.html
>
> to basically get pixel level control of display for your custom
> widgets.
>
> I am not sure what you mean by 'OS widget kit' though - perhaps
> you are ruling out something like Qt there.

Qt/QML is about the closest thing out there to WPF but it's still not  
quite as complete as WPF. Particularly it tends to fall down in the  
databinding and general view/model seperation areas.

-- 
Adam Wilson
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The Horizon Project
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