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Exactly. There's GUIs and there's GUIs. When I've looked at libraries, I always consider how you'd implement the Visual Studio interface with them.
by PorterDuff 7y ago
Exactly. There's GUIs and there's GUIs.
When I've looked at libraries, I always consider how you'd implement the Visual Studio interface with them.
- afturner 7y agoRight. Things like trees, multiple windows, theming, advanced components (with deep composition), collection views, etc. These are the real use cases for a library like this, but no such thing exists apart from Gtk and friends.
- simion314 7y agoExactly, and I see people that will say you can do X with html/css and js but when you look at that example is full of bugs(for corner cases), missing features(like missing essential events), are not efficient etc. If you look at a mature GUI library advanced widget you will see how many events and thing supports and how many bugs were reported because there are many corner cases that need handling. I worked a lot with Flex4 I loved the fact that the widgets were optimized, you could have a list or tables with 1 million items and it would not affect performance. In Web I see the pattern where you use a lot of pages, you show like 12 results and you have the user hit Next and Next when you could have fitter a lot or even all the results on a large page, especially if is all text