On 1/11/20 9:44 am, Barry Scott wrote:
It does not appear to me that use native widgets is important for a tool kit.
It's not strictly necessary. However, recreating the exact appearance and behaviour of native widgets is a lot of work, and difficult to do well -- most toolkits that attempt this don't manage to get all the details exactly right. Moreover, a lot of maintenance effort is needed to keep up with changes to the native widgets which frequently happen with OS updates. And even if the toolkit is kept up to date, you need to install a new version of the toolkit when changes occur. On the other hand, if the toolkit wraps the platform's native widgets, it gets all the correct appearance and behaviour, and automatically tracks changes. For these reasons I regard "uses native widgets" as a mark of quality for a toolkit. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
