Windows Gui Frontend

[rbowman]

On Sun, 02 Apr 2023 13:50:45 -0700 (PDT), Grant Edwards wrote:

> On 2023-04-02, Michael Torrie <torriem at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 4/2/23 05:09, Dietmar Schwertberger wrote:
>>> I also did evaluate all the GUI builder from time to time between 2000
>>> and 2016 to find one that I could recommend to colleagues, but could
>>> not find one. Then I started contributing to wxGlade and I can say
>>> that since a few years it's as easy again to build GUIs as it was with
>>> VB6.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> But any modern GUI toolkit has sizers and layout managers. If you're
>> manually placing elements you cannot deal with HiDPI or changing window
>> sizes.
> 
> Ah, that's the brilliant thing about VB6 apps! They only work properly
> on machines with the same resoultion and display/font configuration as
> the developer.

VB6 isn't the only thing that goes to hell in a hand basket when you start 
playing around with fonts and resolutions. If I were emperor of the world 
there would only be monospaced fonts and a limited selection of those.