GUI libraries

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-11-28 17:22, "Luís Marques" <luis at luismarques.eu>" wrote:

> Yes, but you still automatically get a lot of new behaviors/styles with
> your old application binaries. That's especially important for
> applications that are not as aggressively maintained as Chrome is. Also,
> you don't have to have generic UI libraries (or even bindings): a
> reasonable alternative might be the approach of applications like
> Transmission, which have a common core and several native UI frontends
> (Cocoa, GTK, Web, etc.).
>
> I hope I didn't sound too disagreeable :-) thank you for your feedback.

I think the best approach is to use a cross-platform toolkit that sits 
on top of native toolkit, like DWT. Use this for common widgets like 
buttons and windows, then add platform specific elements to enhance the 
look and feel. These addition can use the native toolkit directly.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg