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[Adam Wilson]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:31:55 -0800, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:

> On 2013-02-19 21:06, Adam Wilson wrote:
>
>> RIGHT! Which is why re-styling controls is so critical. I can get
>> uniform functionality with infinite stylistic possibilities that allow
>> me to choose the best style for each device.
>
> It's not about styling a control differently. It's about using a  
> different control.
>

My point is that I should not have to rebuild a scrollbar from the ground  
up when I want to make it look different. Or button, or textbox, or  
whatever. When I need scrolling functionality I just use a scrollbar then  
style it for the required usage, in many ways this vastly reduces improper  
widget function due to being able to apply a standard implementation to a  
much wider variety of usages, I have ListBoxes in my WPF projects that  
you'd have no idea were just ListBoxes because the look nothing like an OS  
ListBox For example one ListBox I have looks more like a TreeView, except  
that I didn't actually need the TreeView capability, I just need to make  
it LOOK like one. I also usually add some useful visuals that the OS  
widget could never do.

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Adam Wilson
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