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cool, good to hear. with enough dedication and an eye for ui detail, i believe it is possible to make a custom-widget app feel like a good citizen -- the unity
by dilap 9y ago
cool, good to hear. with enough dedication and an eye for ui detail, i believe it is possible to make a custom-widget app feel like a good citizen -- the unity editor is a good example of this, imo. it's a ton of work tho!
(actually, i'm not sure if it's possible to make your app friendly to screen readers w/o using native widgets. maybe?)
if you do pull it off, you'll end up with a great ui toolkit for go. that would be a very interesting thing!
- mwcampbell 9y agoNon-native widgets can certainly be accessible with screen readers and other assistive technologies. But it's a lot of work. You'll need to implement the UI Automation provider API for Windows, AT-SPI for desktop Linux, and the Cocoa accessibility API for Mac. And you probably won't get any of them right the first time. So I think it would have been better not to create a custom toolkit.
- dilap 9y agoIt's a huge task, sure, but someone needs to take on huge tasks from time to time (and Go does not currently have any good UI toolkit story). :-)