wxwindows and native look and feel
I don't know if this is true, but my professor of "Graphical interfaces" told me some month ago that wxwindows is not really "native look and feel" on windows, since for example the "file open" dialog is not native. At the same time, wxwindows has its own format for resources, and the "file open" dialog is not native under gnome (even if it's better than the gnome one). Anyone wishing to clarify? Vincenzo PS: Maybe the wxwindows experience should tell us that what we are looking for is impossible to reach?
PS: Maybe the wxwindows experience should tell us that what we are looking for is impossible to reach?
Maybe I am really too picky :) And Daan has confirmed what I had already thougt, i.e. that my professor has reasons to make us use MFC :PPPP The "file open" dialog IS native under wxwin/win32. Perhaps I'll reinstall windows98 just to test code portability, we'll see... V.
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PS: Maybe the wxwindows experience should tell us that what we are looking for is impossible to reach?
I think that it just tells us that we need to make a bit more effort
than wxWindows did. In particular, the API will probably need to be
revised repeatedly until it is a reasonable "fit" for several
different toolkits.
Ultimately, I doubt that it's feasible (or even possible) to have both
100% native look-and-feel and 100% portability without either
restricting the feature set to a trivial subset of common
functionality or making the API completely unwieldy.
OTOH, it should be feasible to allow simple (rather than trivial)
applications to have both 100% portability and 100% native
look-and-feel, and to allow more complex applications to have at least
one of those aspects without needless compromise on the other aspect.
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