On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Jacob Carlborg <d...@me.com> wrote: > On 2011-11-29 18:06, Anders F Björklund wrote: > >> Jacob Carlborg wrote: >> >>> All the Mac OS X images on this site look horrible: >>> http://www.wxwidgets.org/**about/screensh.htm<http://www.wxwidgets.org/about/screensh.htm> >>> >>> But that might be a problem with the applications and not the toolkit. >>> And the images are so horrible outdated. What version of Mac OS X is >>> that, 10.3? >>> >> >> Okay, so "horrible" was more about outdated than broken or anything. >> > > Well, yes. But that's the whole point, otherwise GTK+ would be an option. > > > Most of the wxD screenshots are from Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" (2006). >> > > Yeah, they look a bit better. > > > BTW, how is the support for Mac OS X specific "widgets" that are usually >>> not available on other platforms, like: >>> >>> * Dialog sheets >>> * Unified toolbar >>> * Adding menu items to the dock icon >>> * Adding menu items to the application menu (or what it's called) >>> >> >> It's in the nature of cross-platform toolkits to poorly support such. >> > > Unfortunately yes. But I see know reason why there can't be a > corss-platform toolkit with additional platform specific widgets or similar. > > This is something I would like to see in a cross-platform toolkit. > > http://mschrag.blogspot.com/**2008/06/maclipse.html<http://mschrag.blogspot.com/2008/06/maclipse.html> > > When a widget is emulated, provide look and feel that would fit for the > specific platform. > > wxWidgets tries to do just that. It is done by programmers though so sometimes they don't quite capture the look.
> > The sheets and toolbars should work in wxOSX/Cocoa (but not in wxMac) >> > > Ok, I see. > > > I tried to run the demo, it requires Rosetta, that was a couple of >>> versions ago of Mac OS X. >>> >> >> All but the latest should run it OK, but I guess you need to compile. >> >> It looks like: >> http://www.algonet.se/~afb/wx/**WidgetsDemo-MacOSX.png<http://www.algonet.se/~afb/wx/WidgetsDemo-MacOSX.png> >> >> # 10.4 has wxWidgets 2.5.3 >> # 10.5 has wxWidgets 2.8.4 >> # 10.6 has wxWidgets 2.8.8 >> # 10.7 does not ship with wxWidgets. >> >> --anders >> > > Yeah, I've tried it out now, looks pretty Ok. But comparing that widget > demo to SWT is basically no difference. SWT looks a bit more polished, but > that might be the widget demo and not the toolkit. > > Does wxWdiget support: > > * Internationalization > Yes. > * Accessibility > I would imagine this is more of an OS level function so...probably? > * Date widget > Yes. > * Validation of input fields Yes. > > -- > /Jacob Carlborg >
