On 7 March 2010 20:47, Michael Van Canneyt <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes, but you disregard the native look and feel. As soon as you must > introduce that, there will be less common code.
The benefits of a custom drawn toolkit - we can choose what features to support. :-) > This is manifestly uncorrect. Show your product and a competing product > with roughly similar features but using 'standard' windows controls, and you > can be assured that the user will choose for the standard one. I can assure you that if I disable the gradient color selection, enable system color detection, then most common components are to the pixel accurate with Win2000 or WinXP un-themed look - default theme in fpGUI. I should probably mention that most of our clients are still running Win98 and Win2000, so this helps us too. I've spent many hours with 'xmag' observing Win98, Win2000 and WinXP screenshots so I can recreate the look - to the pixel. This year I'll be enabling the same for WinXP, Vista, Motif and Clearlooks. WinXP and Motif are each about 90% complete. This should be sufficient to fool most common end-users. > I can only guess, but I think the reason you are getting away with your path > is that you're in a situation where there simply is no competing product. The benefit of being the best in the market. :-) > And for the record: none of what I write is meant to diminish the > achievements of fpGUI. I have not taken any offence either - you are simply speaking of what you know. -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
