[boost] Re: GUI/GDI template library

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-07-30 19:31:10

"Brock Peabody" <brock.peabody_at_[hidden]> writes:

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>> Subject: [boost] Re: GUI/GDI template library
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>> 
>> Has anyone given thought to the design of a domain-specific
>> sublanguage for dialog layout specification?
>
> Do you mean an external scripting language, or a language within C++?

The latter.

> I'd never thought of designing a library like a language but it
> sounds like the right kind of idea for this library, since the
> interface will essentially be a domain-specific sublanguage with a
> large domain specific vocabulary, and especially since interface
> will be the key problem to solve for this library.  Is this what you
> meant?

I think so.  See Boost.Python and Boost.Spirit for examples.

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Dave Abrahams
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