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RE: Maybe the other way around?
by Brandybuck on Sun 14th Feb 2010 08:45 UTC in reply to "Maybe the other way around?"
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You have completely misunderstood Qt. It is not its own windowing system, it uses the native windowing system on the desktop. It does draw its own controls, just like nearly every other toolkit, but it will use the underlying system to do it if it can (Aqua, Aero, etc). Yes it double buffers, because that eliminates flicker. "Alien" widgets are a huge improvement in speed, especially on X11. It doesn't replace file system and threading, it provides an C++ API on the native systems.

You imply that .NET does not do any of this, but that is wrong. Way down deep .NET is still using win32, gdi, low level files and threads, etc.

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