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by pjmlp 3759 days ago
The premise of a portable framework is to allow me to write my code in a portable way across multiple operating systems.

If I have to spend time writing bindings to OS APIs and faking UI widgets for each OS I am targeting, then the framework is not doing anything to help me, rather on the contrary.

As extra info, on 5.3 some of the C++ widgets render on Android as if it was a desktop. Just try to use a Qr file selector on your phone.

Apparently this has worked so well that 5.6 is going to have yet another re-write of the controls.