On 2013-05-20 22:40, Diggory wrote:
UI toolkits are a lot of work but they're not as unreasonably big as everyone seems to be suggesting... I've written a couple myself in a procedural language using Direct3D to draw everything. Had all the standard controls, various layout options, even a syntax highlighted code editor, clipboard interaction, keyboard focus, etc.
I think you underestimate what's needed and the controls people want to have. Did you have date picker, color picker, support for internationalization, field formatters and so on.
-- /Jacob Carlborg
