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| New GUI (toolkit?) with skinning - based on AGG [message #1087] |
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if you haven't seen that you don't know how the nearest future GUI will look like...
if you want to see what other people have achieved with AGG, have a look :http://www.creativedocs.net/devs/gui
and you can try how it works in a real app:
http://www.creativedocs.net/downloads/files/
and if you download, you will see that their resizing of semi-transparent shapes works faster than Ultimate's form designer...
Skin changing is F5 and Global.
Super tool!
Conclusion: The future of GUI's is only AGG and the future is bright... Others can forget their popularity and swim down the river of their ambitions or enjoy the sunshine of stone age...
Something to think about.
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| Re: New GUI (toolkit?) with skinning - based on AGG [message #1091 is a reply to message #1087] |
Mon, 20 February 2006 09:51  |
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>And if you download, you will see that their resizing of semi->transparent shapes works faster than Ultimate's form designer...
I downloaded it and yes it looks really good, theming engine is good too. But resizeing speed of ui is very very slow... opposite to resizeing shapes you mentioned - it's quite responisve.
This gui is one more proof that native widget era is gone..
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| Re: New GUI (toolkit?) with skinning - based on AGG [message #1096 is a reply to message #1091] |
Mon, 20 February 2006 13:46 |
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| unodgs wrote on Mon, 20 February 2006 03:51 |
This gui is one more proof that native widget era is gone..
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I don't think that is really the case. Many people prefer the "normal" native appearance, and not only prefer, but expect/demand it. The ultimate UI framework will be one that allows use of a complete native widget, custom drawing of a native widget, and complete non-native widgets, all in the same app. The critical part is making the 3 varieties seamlessly integrate, switching from 1 variety to the other with a single line of code, wrapped in platform-independent code, and last but not least, high performance redraw. In this regard, I don't think that CreativeDocs has the correct approach, in that it forces use of AGG for everything. Don't get me wrong, you want AGG support, but not for everything. Modular AGG.
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| Re: New GUI (toolkit?) with skinning - based on AGG [message #1112 is a reply to message #1096] |
Mon, 20 February 2006 21:23 |
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mirek
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| jadeite wrote on Mon, 20 February 2006 07:46 |
| unodgs wrote on Mon, 20 February 2006 03:51 |
This gui is one more proof that native widget era is gone..
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I don't think that is really the case. Many people prefer the "normal" native appearance, and not only prefer, but expect/demand it. The ultimate UI framework will be one that allows use of a complete native widget, custom drawing of a native widget, and complete non-native widgets, all in the same app. The critical part is making the 3 varieties seamlessly integrate, switching from 1 variety to the other with a single line of code, wrapped in platform-independent code, and last but not least, high performance redraw. In this regard, I don't think that CreativeDocs has the correct approach, in that it forces use of AGG for everything. Don't get me wrong, you want AGG support, but not for everything. Modular AGG.
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I believe (hope?) that there is difference between "native widget" and "native look&feel". Look&feel can be implemented using non-native widgets (and in fact, this seems to be the only way how to allow all 3 varietes to seamlessly integrate).
In fact, I understand that not using native widgets is clear disadvantage of U++. However, this design decision solves too many issues... and we can do quite well in "native look&feel" arena...
Mirek
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| Re: New GUI (toolkit?) with skinning - based on AGG [message #1135 is a reply to message #1112] |
Tue, 21 February 2006 09:06 |
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| luzr wrote on Mon, 20 February 2006 15:23 |
I believe (hope?) that there is difference between "native widget" and "native look&feel".
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I think that feel is much more imoportant than look. Of course if look is a way different to what people are used to it's not too good, but upp look is almost like xp (even better to me) so we don't have to worry 
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In fact, I understand that not using native widgets is clear disadvantage of U++. However, this design decision solves too many issues... and we can do quite well in "native look&feel" arena...
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I don't think this is disadvantage. Look at the Linux. How many different gui libs are used there. All them provide different look and feel and noone is complaning about that.. Besides if gui lib is themable there always will be someone who provides a proper skin to have a look not to distinguish from its defualut DE apps.
PS: On windows there are many apps that use native widgets but they are far from 'being native' (big buttons, strange toolbars and control placement).
PS2: Even MS Office use some not-native widgets...
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