Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application.

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From	"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject	Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application.
Date	Wed, 13 Jan 2016 21:20:02 +0100
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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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