GUI libraries

[Xavier Bigand]

Le 29/11/2013 18:08, thedeemon a écrit :
> On Thursday, 28 November 2013 at 20:55:02 UTC, Xavier Bigand wrote:
>> What is native on windows ?
>>  - Win32
>>  - Winforms
>>  - Qt Widgets (that is near Win32)?
>
> I would say Win32. Winforms is mostly a thin wrapper over Win32.
> However things get more complicated if you take into account WPF
> (completely new written from scratch UI library which makes your app
> look a bit different and start in just 25 seconds ;) ) and Win 8 Metro
> UI, again based on different mechanisms and having completely different
> look and feel.

So you just tell that on Windows itself there is no real native UI, it 
changes. And now when you use Windows 8 you have some old applications 
based on Win32 UI that looks horrible and not well integrated.
In this case "natives" aren't better.