Qt Native Stye for macOS

[JackMyson]

I have noticed that when users use the Apple macOS system, they should experience some UI-widgets, such as combo-boxes, and message-boxes.
If the macOS developers chooses to use the Qt framework instead of the Swift framework because of its re-usability and code-simplicity, we will discover that some Qt widgets will not look like the same as the traditional native Swift UI widgets.

For example, QComboBox vs NSComboBox (menu).
The typical drop-down menu of Swift UIKit.NSComboBox.menu looks like this:

However, a native C++ Qt::QtWidgets::QCombBox::private::m_menu may looks like this:

For another example, a native UIAlertControler may look like this:

On the other hand, a typical C++ Qt::QtWidgets::QMessageBox will look like this:

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My question is, are there any method to control and use the native format for the menus and messages and widgets, but not the Qt styling one?

/* my aim is not using these codes:
QStyle style = QStyle();
style.setPalette();
style.asdfasdf();
...;...;
setStyle(style);
*/

QApplication::setNativeFormatStyle(true);
// or
QApplication::setAttribute(Qt::AA_MacMenusUseNative);
QApplication::setAttribute(Qt::AA_MacMessageboxUseNativeInBigSur);

[SGaist]

Hi,

One thing I am not sure about your comparison is that you are comparing a menu to a combo box drop-down. They are not the same thing so you should in fact compare it to QMenu.

As for the rest, I think bringing this to the
interest mailing list would be better as you'll find there Qt's developers/maintainers. This forum is more user oriented.

[JackMyson]

@SGaist

Thanks for the answer.

In Qt 6.5, it finally support native macOS message box!