On 11.03.2016 18:41, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Roger Guay wrote:
> I didn’t even know it was a property! I never used it as a delivery
> mechanism, but rather as an early or preliminary detection/indication
> in developing for other platforms. Thanks for the plugin in, Richard.
I hope you enjoy it, but I would caution against using the lookAndFeel
for anything other than nostalgia: for many years the appearances it
emulates bared ever less resemblance to their modern counterparts, and
with modern OS X, Windows 8.1 through 10, and the wonderful Gnome
Shell, Unity, and KDE desktops for Linux, nothing in the modern world
bears any resemblance to the yesteryear appearances emulated with LC's
lookAndFeel property.
In fact, I think that for everything from font metrics to control
shapes you'll find greater consistency among the native themes for all
three desktop platforms than between any of them and any of the older
emulated appearances.
But -
If you're looking to provide something that looks like NeXT, making
everything gun-metal gray and setting the lookAndFeel to Motif does a
pretty good job. :)
I wouldn't doubt that about 90% of people currently working with
LiveCode are targeting
NeXT: although, personally, I'm targeting LaST.
No; lookAndFeel have had their day; if ever they had a day at all.
I have always developed stuff to look exactly the same regardless of
which operating
system it has been deployed to: life seems far too short to quibble
about the passing
show of operating systems' GUIs.
Richmond.
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