Who here actually uses D?

[Lutger Blijdestijn]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:

> "Robert Clipsham" <robert at octarineparrot.com> wrote in message
> news:ift0mt$60p$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> On 03/01/11 16:53, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> There seems to be a lot of conflicting information about Qt then. I read
>>> a
>>> post from one of the Qt devs that said basically what I said above. So I
>>> guess at this point I haven't a clue what to make of Qt. Oh well, anyone
>>> know if wx is coming to D2?
>>
>> Having used both Qt and QtD on (Windows|Linux|OS X), I can say it looks
>> native on all platforms (who cares if it actually is, it looks and feels
>> it).
>>
> 
> The typical problem with things that look native but aren't technically
> native is that there's almost inevitably things that don't work right. For
> instance, they may ignore the system color scheme, they may fail to work
> with tools that inspect/manipulate other app's controls, they may not
> behave correctly outside of the most common use-cases, they may ignore
> system-wide skin settings (such things do, and should, exist for Windows),
> and I've even seen ones that actually go and emulate the wrong system
> style (For instance, Chrome/Iron's dialog windows look like Aero...but I'm
> on XP, and if I were on Win7 I'd be using the Classic theme anyway. Very
> very sloppy).
> 
> If it turns out that Qt's self-drawn controls doesn't have any of those
> issues, then I agree there's no problem at all. I'd also be incredibly
> impressed.

Qt uses the native theme managers on mac osx and windows for styling. I 
haven't tried it but Qt apps should be able to cope with custom color 
schemes, unless of course the developer has overridden that. Perhaps some 
animations / effects are different, but colors should be fine.