AFAIK, Qt also uses the same approach (it does not use native widgets), yet it does not get the same bad reviews like Swing & JavaFX.
On the opposite, I think people generally like it.
I wonder why?
On the opposite, I think people generally like it.
I wonder why?
Home entertainment systems, in-vehicle entertainment systems, kiosks, medical devices, avionics, Linux desktop apps, printer displays, navigation systems, industrial equipment controls, these are the sort of things that Qt is mostly used for.
Do you use a Qt desktop or mobile app on a day to day basis? The only Qt app I have ever used is QtCreator. It's a good development environment, but the look and feel is definitely a bit weird.
For Windows PCs, it was already a widely used native look and feel. Also wide selection of native Win32 controls, mostly implemented in ComCtl32.dll.
Yet in WPF I can easily replicate native look and feels, if I want so.
Unlike that, Spy++ itself uses Win32 (wrapped by MFC but it doesn’t matter) for GUI, you’ll see these SysTreeView32, msctls_statusbar32 and other native controls there.