Re: [boost] GUI/GDI template library

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-02 12:10:29

At 02:39 AM 8/1/2003, Douglas Gregor wrote:

 >From: "E. Gladyshev" <egladysh_at_[hidden]>
 >[snip]
 >> template < typename IT, typename PhysicalGuiLayer >
 >> class ListControl
 >[snip]
 >
 >I'm coming in a bit late into this discussion, but I too am interested in
 >the outcome of this project.
 >
 >I strongly dislike the PhysicalGuiLayer template parameter, for several
 >reasons...

Always hard to tell without seeing a firm proposal, but for me 
a  PhysicalGuiLayer template parameter would probably evoke an "over my 
dead body" response. I think the reasons Doug gives in his message are just 
the tip of the iceberg, but they are plenty good enough to sink the ship, 
IMO.

The whole point of a "portable GUI library" is the word "portable", and I 
meant semantically portable, not just syntactically portable. Thus the sort 
of examples Brock has been posting are what I would hope to see - no 
mention of platforms. OTOH, Eugene has posted a series of examples which 
include "win32" in various names, and I find those pretty repulsive. I 
don't have and problem with Win32 as a platform and use it as my preferred 
development environment. But my code must be portable to all modern 
systems, and a few legacy systems too.

--Beman