Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 4/2/07, Marc Weustink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> THere was no study, however during the years, the inner workings of the
>> LCL <-> Widgetset changed (and is still changing).
>>
>
> I can imagine the inner workings changing - it is a mamoth task to
> bind all those native widget sets.
>
>> As Florian already said, we choose for a native widgetset. That was at
>> that time one of the key points why I joined toe project.
>
> I would have thought for a project the size of Lazarus, there would
> have been some prototypes and documentation to evaluate the pros and
> cons of either going native or writing from scratch. And there being a
> definitive reason why picking the one over the other - rather than,
> it's just what everybody wanted. Maybe it's just me being used to the
> commercial environment where planning and fact finding documentation
> is a requirement before development starts. :-)
Such things take a lot of time even in a commercial environment. And
there was no question wther or not using a native widgetset.
>> > behaviour of widget sets differ between platforms. [It's been one of
>> > THOSE days!]
>>
>> Document those differences !
>> If they are unknown they won't get solved.
>
> After posting so many questions and bug reports in one day, I start
> feeling like a nagging nanny. :-) Either way, I will start reporting
> the difference instead of just trying to work around them.
It may like that way, but at least I (don't know other devels) don't use
all ins and outs of lazarus. My primary usage is Editor, Codetools,
Debugger.
>> Yes, and thats for me one of the reasons why I try to avoid Qt apps
>> under windows if I have a choice. They feel different/primitive
>
> Seeing that you are a windows person.... Open Windows Media Player.
> Any version from v8 onwards. How native does that look or feel
> compared to the rest of the OS. So why may Microsoft get away with it
> and others not? fpGUI in its invinite state looks a lot more native
> that Windows Media Player (I've got WMP 8 infront of me).
Ehm... will it surprise you if I tell you that for most media player
stuff I open mplayer2.exe ? (which is also my default player)
And that I use the corporate skin for WM10 ?
Marc
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