Comment by tsss
16 days ago
Honestly, your GUIs are too simple to be part of this conversation. Try writing something like Spotify in WinAPI and that's not even a complicated GUI either.
16 days ago
Honestly, your GUIs are too simple to be part of this conversation. Try writing something like Spotify in WinAPI and that's not even a complicated GUI either.
Spotify would be remarkably improved if it became a simple enough gui to be excluded from this conversation.
Most apps at the time managed that quite successfully. IIRC Adobe Photoshop was an MFC app. There was no other API but Win32 API.
> Try writing something like Spotify in WinAPI and that's not even a complicated GUI either.
Fruityloops, now FL Studio, was written in Delphi and to my knowledge still is[1]. When ot launched there were no options but Win32 for Delphi.
That's just one example. Win32 makes it reasonably easy to skin things, and back in the 2000s a lit of programs did.
[1]: https://blogs.embarcadero.com/fl-studio-is-a-massively-popul...
> Win32 makes it reasonably easy to skin things
Actually it doesn't. Win32 skinning is either making a control completely from scratch or hacking into undocumented aspects of the native controls - i.e. what WindowBlinds does. AFAIK modern Delphi has some component that basically follows the WindowBlinds approach.
> Win32 skinning is either making a control completely from scratch
In almost all cases you just need to handle the drawing yourself, and you get fairly broad access through the API to do so through the various non-client and client window messages.
Now, Windows has gained some newfangled components over the years with more or less integration, I'm thinking basic Win32 controls.
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WinAmp was the win32 music player of choice, once upon a time.
Once upon a time? I still use WinAmp every single day. It works great, does what I need, and I've never had a problem with it.