Re: [boost] Re: Re: Re: GUI/GDI template library

From: Rob & Lori (Rob.Lori_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-02 18:30:16

E. Gladyshev wrote:

>--- Edward Diener <eddielee_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>  
>
>>As you have pointed out in the rest of your post, it
>>may prove more
>>worthwhile to work with the developers which already
>>exist for a free
>>cross-platform framework like wxWindows, in order to
>>encourage them to use
>>more modern C++ idioms
>>    
>>
>
>I agree with this suggestion.  I am wondering how
>realistic would it be?
>
Personally I'm not certain I like that idea.  WxWindows is much more 
than just multi-platform GUI.  This means when you only need the GUI 
you'll be linking to everything else in their library, which increases 
your code size.  Plus, all those extra classes in WxWindows will make 
things like porting to other platforms even tougher, because you can't 
just port the GUI, but instead you must port all the classes.

And would it even be feasible to port WxWindows GUI classes to use SDL, 
for example?

Besides, I believe it would take more effort to change all the existing 
WxWindows code to use modern C++ techniques (which they would probably 
be against for backwards compatibility reasons) than it would to create 
one from scratch.

Rob Geiman