zazd Posted May 3, 2017 Share Posted May 3, 2017 Im curious, since the user interface is very fluid and beautiful, what gui framework has the affinity team used to develop the affinity photo and design desktop applications. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted May 3, 2017 Share Posted May 3, 2017 If I understand what the developers have said in the past about this correctly, they use the GUI provided by the OS as much as possible. The core code was developed from the beginning to be platform independent to make it easier to offer both OS X & Windows versions, & an iOS version in the near future. Leigh 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zazd Posted May 8, 2017 Author Share Posted May 8, 2017 Might involve QT5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butler To Cats Posted May 9, 2017 Share Posted May 9, 2017 As R C-R stated, no GUI framework is used, so definitely not Qt5. Core code with custom interface code for each platform. In this post, TonyB reveals that C++ is mainly used, but the Mac front end is written in Objective C. Not a professional programmer myself, but I assume this gives Serif more control and flexibility with their tool choices and code, rather than being locked into a specific tool-chain or framework. I assume it also limits bug-hunting to their own code and the OS-specific tools, rather than potentially including third-party GUI framework bugs. mrtymcln 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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