wxC & wxD

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Tue Nov 29 04:39:42 PST 2011


On 2011-11-29 09:09, Anders F Björklund wrote:
> Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>> I'm not so sure DWT is either officially supported or in the same league
>>> as other toolkits. World of SWT is not thrilling...
>>
>> BTW, I don't understand what people has against DWT/SWT. In my
>> experience it's the toolkit that offers best native look and feeling.
>
> One advantage of DWT is/was that it linked directly with the system.
> With wxWidgets (in wxD), there is the C++ framework layer inbetween.
>
> But other than that, the two should be rather similar in look/feel ?
> At least when compared to GTK+ or Qt, using their own custom widgets.
>
>> Note that I have no experience with wx but the screenshots on the site
>> looks really bad.
>
> What site is that ? Is it one of these:
>
> http://www.wxwidgets.org/about/screensh.htm
>
> http://wxd.sourceforge.net/screenshot.html
>
> http://wxd.sourceforge.net/#screenshots
>
> It's not supposed to look much different, from other native apps.
> The easiest way to see is trying the wxWidgets binaries yourself:
>
> http://wxd.sourceforge.net/#demo
>
> --anders

All the Mac OS X images on this site look horrible: 
http://www.wxwidgets.org/about/screensh.htm

But that might be a problem with the applications and not the toolkit. 
And the images are so horrible outdated. What version of Mac OS X is 
that, 10.3?

BTW, how is the support for Mac OS X specific "widgets" that are usually 
not available on other platforms, like:

* Dialog sheets
* Unified toolbar
* Adding menu items to the dock icon
* Adding menu items to the application menu (or what it's called)

I tried to run the demo, it requires Rosetta, that was a couple of 
versions ago of Mac OS X.


-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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