On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 11:48:19AM +0000, Glynn Clements wrote:
Axel Simon wrote:
Providing widgets beyond those of the native platform is a violation of look-and-feel by definition.
Not necessarily.
The standard Xt-based widget sets (Athena, Motif) are both fairly basic, so it's common for non-trivial applications to create additional widget classes as necessary.
When creating additional widgets, I think that the key is to "go with the grain" of the native widgets. I.e. base the new widget class on an existing one (e.g. Motif has XmPrimitive and XmManager widget classes, which exist solely as a base for more specific classes), and honour any established conventions.
Ok, granted. But judgeing from the screenshots of wxWindows, they introduce their own TreeWidget which looks different from Aqua's. And that is to be avoided I think. Axel.