GUI libraries

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Thu Nov 28 12:00:24 PST 2013


On 2013-11-28 17:45, Chris wrote:

> I agree with you, you have a point there, and years ago I would have
> agreed with you. But users are getting more and more accustomed to a
> variety of GUIs (and general GUI logic). I used to work a lot with SWT
> and Cocoa and I know that unless you use the native toolkit in a native
> environment (say Cocoa and Xcode on OS X), you will never get the full
> experience. There are always things you cannot get with bindings. And
> what about the cool feature X on the Mac that is not available on
> Windows or Linux? In a way it's always a lowest common denominator thing
> with bindings.

See one of my other posts:

http://forum.dlang.org/thread/ewhdymbhzjmmuxvbssyt@forum.dlang.org?page=2#post-l7878f:24qt5:241:40digitalmars.com

> People are also starting to use GTK based stuff on Windows and Mac,
> which offers a different user experience. Still people cope with it.

I hate that. It's so far from the native toolkit.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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