Re: IUP Accessibility Concerns and Praise

["steve donovan" <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Veli-Pekka Tätilä <vtatila@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi list,
> I just downloaded LFW and am exploring the libraries, especially the IUP GUI
> library as a replacement for Perl's Win32::GUI for recreational coding. My
> question is, why isn't the tree control IUP uses in Win32 native and are
> there any work-arounds? Personally, this is an accessibility problem and
> quite a show stopper at that. I've tested some other controls, too, and
> fortunately the basics like edit fields, buttons and message boxes appear to
> work natively, however.

That's an interesting question: why does IUP not use the native tree
control? GTK+ is a joker, of course, since its tree view is a rather
different animal, but on platforms that have the 'canonical' tree
view, why not use it?

steve d.