> Qt only emulates Windows controls, but wxWidgets uses the actual Windows controls via Microsoft Win32 API. I don't think this is actually what you want on Wi

> Qt only emulates Windows controls, but wxWidgets uses the actual Windows controls via Microsoft Win32 API. I don't think this is actually what you want on Windows. The standard common controls are pretty outdated. Anyone who has built a complex program with a lot of widgets using common controls (or a framework that wraps them) can probably tell you that they're really slow and they have problems with flicker. They also use outdated font rendering (GDI rather than DirectWrite) and they don't natively support alpha-blending. Even Microsoft avoid using common controls. Task dialogs, Aero wizards and most control panels are built with an internal toolkit called DirectUI. Office is built with similar technology, and obviously WPF and Windows Store apps don't use common controls. This makes Qt pretty much what you want on Windows. It uses the native theming APIs so its controls look native, but they are rendered with a high performance raster engine that supports alpha-transparency and eliminates flicker. Also, I think the latest version of Qt uses DirectWrite for font rendering.