The future of DWT

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2010-06-25 20:28, Patrick Kreft wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:41:08 +0200, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:
>
>> "Jacob Carlborg" <doob at me.com> wrote in message
>> news:i022ns$33h$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>> On 2010-06-24 21:49, theambient wrote:
>>>> Is there any sense in developing DWT cause there are many others gui
>>>> libraries for d as dfl, GtkD, QtD ???
>>>>
>>>
>>> * GtkD and QtD don't use the operating system's functions to draw their
>>> controls, especially not GtkD
>>>
>>
>> I thought that newer versions of Qt did use the native controls?
>>
>>
>
> Well, older version of Qt use native controls. However there was problem
> with flicker. Since Qt 4.4 controls are self drawn
> http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2007/08/30/say-goodbye-to-flicker-aliens-are-here-to-stay/

That seems strange, that they had native controls but then switch to 
self drawn. Wonder why they had those problems, I mean the native 
applications don't have those problems.


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/Jacob Carlborg