Re: GUI interfaces

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Thursday, February 26, 2004, at 10:28 AM, A. Pagaltzis wrote:

> * alas widomaker com <alas widomaker com> [2004-02-25 17:03]:
> > Wx
> > portability   9 (runs on just about everything)
> > easy          ? (never really used it)
> > appearance    9
>
> Objection. You can only compile it against Gtk1.2 or Motif on
> Unix and expect it to work reasonably well. Portability should be
> 5 in my book, and appearance on Unix is only 5 as well.

i would object because of it's MFC-like design, but that's just me and 
my hatred of the MFC.

OS X programs written with Wx also suffer from transition problems; 
e.g. Audacity on the mac has useless key bindings, because the menu 
accelerators/mnemonics get turned into actual accelerators which 
override one another --- there are five occurrences of Cmd-A in the 
menu, and since About is last in the menus, it wins, you can't select 
all without using the mouse.


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