Re: wxwindows and native look and feel

Glynn Clements <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.haskell.gui
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Nick Name wrote:

> 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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Glynn Clements <[email protected]>
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