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Subject: Re: [boost] Thoughts for a GUI (Primitives) Library
From: Alexander Lamaison (awl03_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-09-08 06:47:48


On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 22:32:18 -0400, Gottlob Frege wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Alexander Lamaison <awl03_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>> Absolutely!  I simply wouldn't touch a GUI library that didn't render
>> native widgets.  I'd be too embarrassed to release software that had an
>> amateur look&feel.
>>
>
> Lots of Adobe software is written with non-native UI. Not typically
> described as amateur. What they have is a 'look' that tends to be
> somewhere between Mac and Windows, with some things possibly skinned
> per-paltform, but most of it with just an in between Adobe look.

Funny, I had exactly these apps in mind when I wrote that comment. ;-)
The look like the've been written in Flash!

Alex

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