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Re: This is welcome news...
by rilla on Tuesday 17/Jun/2003, @18:37

> I'm not convinced Mac developers would use a non-native toolkit personally

I dont think the Mac version of Qt is marketed for primarily Mac developers, but insteadd for people who want to develop apps cross platform. Mac users are being increasingly exposed to free software and I think more and more people

> Also, as I stated later, I think it uses a skin. A good skin, but still not native controls mind...

Based on what I've heard, it uses carbon. Qt-Mac apps, such as Psi (great app-- best jabber app ever btw, use it all the time) or TOra (which hasn't officially been released for OSX, but preview builds work), look and feel just like Carbon apps. If it uses skins, i'll be VERY suprised because it works with the carbon no-lines hack. Only thing that seems to be weird is the toolbar handle but I think that's because carbon doesn't natively support moving around toolbars. MS Office v.X has it's own toolbar handles as do any apps with that functionality.

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Re: This is welcome news...
by Don Sanders on Tuesday 17/Jun/2003, @20:55

Right. Early versions of Qt/Mac used a skin (pixmap based QStyle), but we changed over to using the OSX Appearance Manager API to draw widgets some time ago.

This is native, even if an OSX machine is using a third party (unsupported) OSX theme, or if apple brings out a new theme then Qt apps will draw widgets using that theme.

Don.

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