[boost] Re: GUI sublanguage ?

From: Philippe A. Bouchard (philippe_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-07 17:04:24

nimaca2001_at_[hidden] wrote:

[...]

> After having followed this thread I wander if we are trying to
> reinvent
> the wheel. By googling a bit one can find plenty of "Gui Toolkits" and
> here I saw little of them. Not a word on Qt, for example. I never
> used it for an important project but they give a (good ?) solution for
> example to the layout issues discussed so far.
> If I should criticize them (as a lazy user who is in troble finding
> his way among all those features) if the fact that there are huge
> classes that probably need further decomposition of resposibilities.
>
> Anyway Qt make life simple for simple apps and provides something
> that scales quite well for larger projects (I haven't used it but
> I can use KDE as witness).
>
> So I would like to have a clearer idea of the difference between
> the goal of this thread and existing solutions (i.e. Qt).

At some degree it becomes political issues.  I doubt Boost would want to
take the same risky path I took (Corel).

Philippe