RE: [boost] GUI/GDI template library

From: E. Gladyshev (egladysh_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-07-25 15:51:02

Whisper2 is more like an application framework, and
it's quite huge and Mac/Win only.  My suggestion is to
provide a relatively simple way to connect STL
containers to the standard GUI elements and deploy the
container/iterator paradigm to the GUI/GDI elements
themselves.  Something very light and portable.

Eugene

--- Jon Kalb <jonkalb_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> This sounds to me like the goals of the Whisper
> framework. Check out
> Whisper 2 on source forge.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] 
> > [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf
> Of E. Gladyshev
> > Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 11:11 AM
> > To: boost_at_[hidden]
> > Subject: [boost] GUI/GDI template library
> > 
> > 
> > I was thinking about designing a GUI/GDI template
> > library.  
> > 
> > The main ideas are:
> > 1. Create a portable template abstraction for
> standard
> > GUI/GDI elements and dialog boxes.
> > 2. Design an "iterator-like" interface.
> > 3. The most important goal is design a natural
> > connection between STL containers and GUI
> elements, so
> > that STL data can be easily presented in the GUI
> > environment.
> > 
> > For example
> > template < typename IT, typename PhysicalGuiLayer
> >
> > class ListControl
> > {
> > public:
> > 	template < typename Filter, typename Format >
> > 	void push_back( IT& FirstIt, 
> > 			IT& EndIt, 
> > 			Filter& filter, 
> > 			Format& format )
> > 	{
> > 		for( IT it = FirstIt; it < EndIt; ++it )
> > 		{
> > 			if( filter(it) )
> > 			{
> > 				PhysicalGuiLayer::list_add_item( 
> > 					m_hnd, 
> > 					format.get_list_item(it) 
> > 				);
> > 			}
> > 		}
> > 	}
> > };
> > 
> > Does something similar exist already?
> > It seems like a challenging project. If anybody is
> > interested, let me know.  
> > 
> > Eugene
> > 
> > 
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