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| From | "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.programming |
| Subject | Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. |
| Date | 2016-01-13 21:20 +0100 |
| Organization | Aioe.org NNTP Server |
| Message-ID | <n76bho$60o$1@gioia.aioe.org> (permalink) |
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On 2016-01-13 19:25, Daniel Pitts wrote: > On 1/8/16 12:30 AM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: >> On 2016-01-08 03:02, Daniel Pitts wrote: >>> >>> I'm not expecting to write-once-run-anywhere the UI portion. >> >> Why not? That is the main reason to use such libraries. > Which is why I'm not considering such libraries. Let's remember that. >> The GUI and all >> application code I write requires no changes when compiled for Windows >> or Linux. If I designed, say a Windows only application, I would use >> Win32 API. > > Just because it presents a UI that "functions" on the target platform, > doesn't mean it plays well with the target platform. It plays incomparably better than any Web-based UI suggested. Of course the native API could be better, but they are usually so messy due to backward compatibility and low-level abstraction reasons that any difference is quite marginal. > My first target > platform is OS X, which has specific UXD idioms which are not the same > as in Windows or Linux. You said above you didn't want it portable. So if it is OK for you to redesign UI for each target, why do you worry about idioms? -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2016-01-07 11:37 -0800
Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2016-01-07 21:24 +0100
Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2016-01-07 18:02 -0800
Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2016-01-08 09:30 +0100
Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2016-01-13 10:25 -0800
Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2016-01-13 21:20 +0100
Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2016-01-14 02:57 -0800
Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-01-07 21:55 +0000
Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2016-01-07 18:01 -0800
Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk> - 2016-01-08 10:05 +0100
Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-01-08 19:14 +0000
Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2016-01-09 04:09 -0800
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