[Haskell-beginners] Re: Selecting a GUI toolkit

[Thomas Davie]

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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