On 02/04/2013 11:45 AM, Andres Linares wrote: > Hi, > Beforehand I'll introduce myself. My name is Andres Linares, I'm very > interested into developing using C++ and Qt Framework. I've been reading > some books and some documentation on the net, so I have a little > question about GUI support on Qt. > > On a book named "C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4, Second Edition", on page > 23, it says: > "Qt applications look native on every supported platform. Qt achieves > this by emulating the platform's look and feel, rather than wrapping a > particular platform or toolkit's widget set. " > > but in this post it says: > > "but to achieve true perfection we need to use the Gtk theme engine > directly just like we do on Mac and Windows." > > So how Qt multiplatform GUI support works? Does it actually wraps > something from some GUI component (like Cocoa on Mac OS X or WinAPI on > Windows, considering it says it wraps GTK on GTK-based environments) or > it just acts like a "mask" on a specific platform (like Java)?
It queries the native theming engine to see what rules it uses to draw a widget (colors, images, coordinates etc) and then uses those rules to draw it's own widgets. It is not always perfect, but in 98% of cases, it is. > > Thank you, and sorry for my bad english. > > Best wishes, > > Andres Linares > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > Interest@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
