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Re:Ask HN: How to do cross platform GUI? by bmn__ on Monday August 24, 2020 @05:52AM (#24259040)
> OTOH all the standard UI elements (buttons, checkboxes, text controls, date pickers, ...) are native

Well, let's verify that… https://i.imgur.com/uHfjoUs.png No, they're not.

> draggable/dockable tabs/panels […] You can't say they differ from native ones because there is just no native version

That sounds wrong. Why should they not be? Do you have any proof?

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Re:Ask HN: How to do cross platform GUI? by VZ on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @08:59AM (#24270841)
> Well, let's verify that… https://i.imgur.com/uHfjoUs.png No, they're not.

Sorry, I don't know what is this supposed to prove, but I can definitely assure you that all the mentioned controls, and many others, are exactly native controls under the 3 first tier platforms (MSW, GTK and macOS).

> Do you have any proof?

Proof of absence of something is hard to make, all I can say is that you can go through MSDN, GTK and Cocoa documentation to convince yourself.

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