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[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-12-03 00:24, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> On 12/2/11, Walter Bright<newshound2 at digitalmars.com>  wrote:
>> Consider that existing successful GUI libraries have had *enormous*
>> resources poured into them.
>
> I think a vast majority of that time was spent dealing with
> OS-specific bugs due to the requirement that widgets must look and
> feel native to each OS. That, and dealing with C++ shenanigans. But I
> think the whole "must look native" stance is now wearing off though
> (sorry Nick). Last I've heard, Qt5 was moving to a OpenGL backend, I
> don't know how that will compare with native widgets. But hey, even
> Microsoft wants to kill of GDI (they've put its docs in the
> "deprecated technologies" section).

If Microsoft kills GDI and uses some DirectX/OpenGL backend for its GUI, 
then that will be the native GUI. Just because GDI/Win32 has been the 
native GUI for Windows doesn't mean it can't be replaced with a new 
native GUI.

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/Jacob Carlborg