[Haskell-beginners] Re: Selecting a GUI toolkit

[Peter Verswyvelen]

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...

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Daniel Carrera <
daniel.carrera at theingots.org> wrote:

> Heinrich Apfelmus wrote:
>
>> The first difference is the spacing. In the wxHaskell version, the
>> enclosing tab is glued to the window border left and right, while there
>> is a considerable margin in the native version. The inner boxes have
>> spacious margins, too.
>>
>> The second is the capitalization in the native version. That gives it a
>> totally different look! I even thought that they were using different
>> fonts at first.
>>
>
> I didn't notice any of these except for the tab margin until you pointed
> it out. The tab margin left and right is the only thing I noticed.
> Taking a second look, I also notice the margin *below* the tab box.
>
>
>  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).
>
> I just went to the wxWidgets website. On that site, the Mac OS screen
> shots show the buttons capitalized. In any case, I think these differences
> are minor. More importantly, I'm not sure that a different cross-platform
> toolkit would do a better job.
>
> Daniel.
>
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