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Message: [QUOTE="Rando Christensen, post: 4438230"] I'm quite familiar with apple's HIG and the differences between it and the way applications look and feel in Linux and Windows. However, I think you're a bit off in calling it impossible. It would require a toolkit that made you know and account for the quirks of different operating systems, but it's far from impossible. However, speaking on a more practical level, A lot of people would just be happy with being able to write code that looks decent and doesn't require too much work to set up on any individual target platform. It's possible. Hell, hop on a mac and download the neat Gimp package that exists. Yes, it's GTK, and yes, it even requires X11 to be installed. However, it comes in an OSX .app bundle, comes pre-packaged with it's own copy of gtk+ in there with it's own theme, and even knows how to launch X11 on it's own when it launches. It's nowhere close to fully native, but it's good enough not to scare people away. It'd be a bit of work to write a toolkit that could create something like that, either through using native widgets or whatever, but it is possible, and it's something I wish we'd see come up. [/QUOTE]