This is one of many reasons why I don't believe any of these cross- platform toolkits will ever be good enough to make truly native-like UIs – The bottom line is that tab views are different between Mac OS and other OSes, they have much more padding round them on Mac OS. This means that any layout you create involving them will never work on both platforms. Bob On 1 May 2009, at 17:25, Heinrich Apfelmus wrote:
Peter Verswyvelen wrote:
I thought wxWidgets was actually one of the only toolkits that actually *used* the native GUI libraries??? See e.g. http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/WxWidgets_Compared_To_Other_Toolkits
So I don't understand how come the look and feel is different then...
Using native GUI libraries is necessary, but not sufficient for achieving the same look and feel. :)
Other elements are layout and spacing,
http://developer.apple.decenturl.com/human-interface-guidelines- layout http://developer.apple.decenturl.com/hi-guidelines-windows
drag & drop,
http://developer.apple.decenturl.com/hi-guidelines-dragndrop
writing style and fonts
http://developer.apple.decenturl.com/human-interface-guidelines-text
etc, etc.
Daniel Carrera wrote:
Thirdly, the textlogs have different fonts. Again, the wxHaskell one looks non-standard.
Honestly, I can't tell. They are both very similar, sans fonts. Also, the font could be explained by the fact that these screen shots are taken on different computers (different OS versions, different settings).
There is a default set of fonts
http://developer.apple.decenturl.com/human-interface-guidelines-text
The "mini system font" is the typography of choice for text boxes, but it looks the "application font" is acceptable as well.
In any case, I think these differences are minor.
I don't. :)
More importantly, I'm not sure that a different cross-platform toolkit would do a better job.
True, that. It's just that this doesn't mean that wxWidgets does a very good job.
Regards, apfelmus
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