Star Interview with Jeroen van der Zijp of FOX
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 13th Jul 2007 06:18 UTC, submitted by Sander Jansen
General Development Jeroen van der Zijp, the author of Fox Toolkit, has kindly given kerkythea.net an interview. The Fox Toolkit is a platform independent GUI that has matured over the last years to become one of the fastest and well structured APIs.
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RE[4]: I think you're right
by navaraf on Fri 13th Jul 2007 22:08 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: I think you're right"
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Note that even MS is using non-native widgets in almost any application (e.g. MS Office) and nobody really complains.


I do complain, but I guess my voice is lost in the outcry. ;) I'm the first one to complain that MS itself breaks their own GUI guidelines. Unfortunately that makes other corporations follow the trend and do the same (at least from my experience as software developer).

In a risk of getting a bit off-topic I recommend taking a few seconds to read http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/07/28/199589.aspx (Edited: Don't miss the discussion ... ;)

Theming APIs are now good enough to integrate non-native widgets in a way that you will not notice unless you are looking very carefuly


I perfectly agree on this. My point though was that you can imitate the controls now (with themes and stuff), but you can't imitate how will they behave in the next Windows release (or another platform for that matter).

Qt, U++, OpenOffice, Firefox all are using this approach and I have not noticed people complaining about e.g. Firefox appearance in Win32 or Linux...


Yay, very true, these are the few cases where the imitation of the native controls is almost perfect and most importantly it's *maintained* and *updated*.
Example of the other kind could be Firefox 2.x on MacOS X where some key behavior is different from the native controls and people used to "the standard" notice it.

Overall you make a good point, so you deserve a (moderation) point from me too ;-)

Edited 2007-07-13 22:24

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