Combobox Styles and SwiftUI

[bryce-happel-walton]

The Slint "native" ComboBox looks very strange on MacOS. It does not seem to use the user preferred accent color, and it has this weird arrow thing on the side.

It doesn't really match the native Swift style.

This discussion is actually about something else though... Swift offers two different kinds of comboboxes. One that is a dropdown like what is provided, but the other is different.

1: Pull-down

2: Pop-up

I think when Slint uses ComboBox, Swift would use Pop-up.
Video example below:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/43dc5f3c-63c1-44dd-9e7b-1c35a5aef8b3

[FloVanGH]

Hi,

first of all thank you for your feedback.
short explanation all components of the std-widgets are not real native components. They are build from scratch in Slint for different platforms, so there is a cupertino version of the components for macOS, a material version for Android and a fluent version for Windows. As base we are using the style guide to do the work on the components. For material and fluent there a open, documented style guides, for the apple platforms unfortunately not . There is a open style guides, but not completed and not completely free to use.

I know there are improvements needed to make the components looks and feels more like the origin swift components. This is already on the agenda. As next the material version of the std-widgets will get a refresh and after that I think it make sense to do the same for the cupertino style.