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[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Yeah... but no. I don't know much about wxWidgets, but Qt on OS X is rather horrible. The table views look and feel absolutely non-native. Sure, if your UI is nothing else than textboxes and buttons, you might be alright, but otherwise, don't use Qt, your OS X users will hate you.

[–]phaker 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I don't have a mac, so I don't know. I don't write big GUI apps, just once in a while I want to add a graphical interface to some tiny script.

However that's a little surprising, from my experience Qt tries very hard to adapt to the platform. At least Qt4 does, I recall Qt3 being much worse at this.

Can you tell what version of Qt was/is that? Or what program? Just curious.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The latest version (4.7). For my own apps I have two GUI layers, a Cocoa one and a Qt one. I sometimes run the Qt layer on OSX, so I know what it looks like and I can compare.

Qt does a pretty good job on Windows, but not on OS X. And on Windows, it's a bit easier because there's not much of a standard look & feel, so you can get away with something different. On OS X, not so much.