Thiago Macieira wrote:
On segunda-feira, 18 de novembro de 2013 10:28:12, Bill Spitzak wrote:
Can you explain why "consistency" is so important for the window frame,
but is not a problem for the buttons and scrollbars and text fields and
everything else inside the frame?
I personally think that it is a problem. IMO, toolkits should provide a way
for an application to deeply integrate with the environment that they're
running in and have as best as possible look and feel and behaviour.
Maybe that's a race we can't win. But I do think we should try.
I agree that it may be impossible, but it should be tried. And I think
an important first step is to treat the window frames and the rest of
the widgets the same, using the same library to draw them both.
I think the solution is to try to come up with a minimal library with no
"objects" (except maybe a "context" that is reused for every call). It
would be something like "draw the outline of a button here with the
pressed-in state" and "tell me the box to draw the label in for a button
drawn here". The existence of the button is not stored by the library,
the bounding box is passed to the calls.
Qt's QStyle are a pretty good first approximation.
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