From: Pierre Brengard <pbrengard@...>
Date: 2002-07-30T15:38:54+09:00
Subject: Re: wxWindows for ruby



Tom Sawyer wrote:

>On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 22:35, Clifford Heath wrote:
>  
>
>>Have you ever used Qt? I think it does a good job of the whole styles
>>thing - you can switch between 5+styles on the fly.
>>    
>>
>really? that's interesting and sounds impressive. but what kind of
>styles are we talking about?
>  
>
native toolkits styles : Windows, Motif, SGI, CDE, Platinum,... and if 
you are not satified with them, you can design your own style.

>to be clear i'm talking about native integration. so if i'm running
>under qt, the app looks and behaves as if it were a qt app, but if i'm
>running under windows, the same app looks and behaves as if it were a
>windows app. essentially "platform mimicry" vs. "platform parley". the
>later is what wxWindows does. but i've never seen a GUI system do the
>former.
>  
>
That's exactly what Qt provides but I am not sure of 'running under Qt' 
means...
I don't get the difference between  "mimicry" and "parley", could you 
explain it more ?

Pierre