On: Defragmenting Qt and Uniting Our Ecosystem

[panzi]

One might want to add: There are not "native" controls under X11 (and I guess also Wayland). There Qt is as native as any other toolkit.

[zokier → panzi]

There barely are any "native" controls on Windows either.

[wolfgke → zokier]

Then what is the function CreateWindow in User32.dll for (for all non-Windows developers: this is the WinAPI function to create a control on Windows; it returns a handle to it)?

> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms63...

The lpClassName parameter specifies the type of control to create.

[roel_v → wolfgke]

The vast majority of controls on any Windows screen in 2014 is created with CreateWindow calls with that parameter set to some value that was added on by RegisterWindowClass though.

I still agree with you that it's silly to say that Windows hardly has 'native' controls.