Re:So you want to write a GUI framework (2021)
by moron4hire on Friday June 23, 2023 @01:17AM
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I will say this about HTML+CSS: it's not the best layout system I've ever used, but it's certainly the best one I've used that runs on all the platforms I care about.
That might change with .NET MAUI, though. I'm not too deep into it yet, and it is significantly different enough from HTML+CSS to be a challenge to learn, but what I havelearned so far keeps making me question "why did the CSS version of this have to be so hard?"
To do really nice form layouts in a desktop application, alignment and sizing of labels across the entire form becomes really important to me. Products like Developer Express that have a dedicated form layout work so well for this. And some of the swing layout managers I've used (I can't recall the name, too long ago) make complicated form layouts much more sane than grid, flex and other css layouts.