wondering about widgets

[Richard Gaskin]

Alex Rice wrote:

> On Mac OS, clearly it has the "Appearance Manager" option which is
> drawing native widgets. Also the text smoothing is clearly native MacOS
> stuff. On Mac there's the Emulated Mac OS. Emulated Windows, Emulated
> UNIX.
> 
> On Win32- are those native widgets or emulated?
> 
> On Linux/Unix- are the widgets emulated, or are Rev apps linked with
> Motif, KDE, GTK or something to draw native widgets?

Win and Lunix/UNIX are emulated.  Win uses the Win95 appearance standards,
and Linux/UNIX uses Motif.

I'm told that there's an interest in supporting native appearances on
Windows XP, but do not know the satus -- Kevin?

With the many varied APIs among window managers in UNIX, it seems unlikely
Rev will be able to hook into them gracefully until they standardize.

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