On 2011-12-03 00:24, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
On 12/2/11, Walter Bright<newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote:
Consider that existing successful GUI libraries have had *enormous*
resources poured into them.
I think a vast majority of that time was spent dealing with
OS-specific bugs due to the requirement that widgets must look and
feel native to each OS. That, and dealing with C++ shenanigans. But I
think the whole "must look native" stance is now wearing off though
(sorry Nick). Last I've heard, Qt5 was moving to a OpenGL backend, I
don't know how that will compare with native widgets. But hey, even
Microsoft wants to kill of GDI (they've put its docs in the
"deprecated technologies" section).
If Microsoft kills GDI and uses some DirectX/OpenGL backend for its GUI,
then that will be the native GUI. Just because GDI/Win32 has been the
native GUI for Windows doesn't mean it can't be replaced with a new
native GUI.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
