GUI libraries

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-11-29 18:03, thedeemon wrote:

> This is pure Mac talk.
> In Windows the "native" UI elements are so scarce and primitive, that
> most apps with decent UI end up making their own. For example, one would
> assume that UI elements that can be found in MS Office are native and
> can be used in other apps. But they are not, Office used its own UI
> library and never shared it with anyone. Ribbon implementation that
> comes with recent Visual Studio is a completely different implementation
> made by custom drawing, mimicking the look of Office. Actually, there
> are even several different implementations, for different languages.
> Relying purely on native controls leads nowhere.
>
> And Linux notion of "native" is already discussed and destroyed before me.

That's why Mac OS X is so great, it's consistent :). But Apple creates 
custom controls as well. An example is the tabs available in Safari and 
Xcode. Other applications are trying to emulate them with various 
degrees of success. Path Finder does a very good emulation of Safari tabs.

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/Jacob Carlborg