From: David Ross Date: 2004-08-09T07:42:02+09:00 Subject: Re: Free(real Free) GUI toolkits > I'm quite familiar with apple's HIG and the > differences between it and > the way applications look and feel in Linux and > Windows. However, I > think you're a bit off in calling it impossible. It > would require a > toolkit that made you know and account for the > quirks of different > operating systems, but it's far from impossible. > It is not impossible. It just takes a good knowledgable programmer. Thats all. Other people don't know what they are talking about. Period. :) > However, speaking on a more practical level, A lot > of people would just > be happy with being able to write code that looks > decent and doesn't > require too much work to set up on any individual > target platform. > > It's possible. Hell, hop on a mac and download the > neat Gimp package > that exists. Yes, it's GTK, and yes, it even > requires X11 to be > installed. However, it comes in an OSX .app bundle, > comes pre-packaged > with it's own copy of gtk+ in there with it's own > theme, and even knows > how to launch X11 on it's own when it launches. It's > nowhere close to > fully native, but it's good enough not to scare > people away. > Never tried Gimp on Mac yet. I'm hooked on photoshop ;) > It'd be a bit of work to write a toolkit that could > create something > like that, either through using native widgets or > whatever, but it is > possible, and it's something I wish we'd see come > up. You could always help port WideStudio code. Just because its MIT licensed and doesnt have strings attached. 8) low-level programming is something I find easy. I can even program well in Xlib without doing the crazy number others perform. (*pulling thier hair out, yelling at big code, etc) > > -- > Rando Christensen > > > --David Ross (drossruby)(at)(yahoo.com) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail