On 4/2/07, Micha Nelissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
IMHO, a custom drawn widgetset is never better; as user I would refuse to use it, unless forced to.
Tell that to all the KDE or Qt users out there! I really don't get this argument? Why wouldn't you? Think of what a widget set is (referring to the visual aspects only). It's a set of drawing instructions, to paint a component on a canvas. It's that simple. Now if you take the time with a custom written widget set, you can paint exactly like that. The end-user wouldn't even know. The QThemed unit I used with Kylix and CLX, used composite screenshot images of the different parts of the WinXP themes. I studied the look in detail using xmag (sorry Felipe, didn't know about Magnifier then <smile>) and couldn't tell the difference, other than the title bar (because the app was running under Linux). I believe later versions of QThemed actually hooked into the themes engine of WinXP, to do the painting without the need for composite images. Implementing themes like Win2000, Win98 or Motif is even easier.
> Changing only the painting backend is much easier (100s of times) then > writing a new widgetset interface. Of course it's easier; but IMHO it's also ugly/uglier.
Uglier than the current LCL interface? With units like gtkproc or gtkwinapi, etc. ;-) Compare that to the backend of fpGUI. [http://fpgui.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fpgui/trunk/gfx/] -- Graeme Geldenhuys There's no place like S34° 03.168' E018° 49.342' _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
