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Is there really a Windows native look anymore? Every application seems to have a completely different UI style now. The old days of dialog boxes all having the
by lopmotr 7y ago
Is there really a Windows native look anymore? Every application seems to have a completely different UI style now. The old days of dialog boxes all having the same Winforms controls are gone and now they're a random mixture, even within Windows itself. The tabs in Chrome are not like the tabs in Excel which are not like the tabs in Paint3D. It's all over the place.
- userbinator 7y agoYes, I believe the inconsistencies started with Vista, and has gotten worse since then, but the parts they didn't change still have the consistent normal Win32 style. The standard tab control looks like this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/controls/tab-controls https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/controls/ta... There is a (probably incomplete) list of standard controls here, I believe the documentation for each one contains screenshots of what they look like: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/controls/individual-control-info https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/controls/in... That said, Chrome's tabs are (at least the last time I checked) actually bitmap images, Excel's tabs are also probably custom-drawn yet fortunately aren't bitmaps (just judging by how they look), and I believe Pain(t)3D is actually UWP.