Re: [boost] GUI/GDI template library

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-08 07:46:53

At 07:30 PM 8/6/2003, Joel de Guzman wrote:

 >Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:
 >> At 10:54 AM 8/5/2003, Brock Peabody wrote:
 >>
 >>  >> I don't know much about other GUI systems but win32
 >>  >> and MFC. I think we can try to define the low-level
 >>  >> layer using win32 and/or MFC as the starting point.
 >>  >> If we cover these two, it'll be a good start and prove
 >>  >> of concept.
 >>  >
 >>  >Actually for a proof of concept we could get by with just one.
 >>
 >> Given the major differences between underlying GUI API's, your really
 >need
 >> to be developing in parallel for both Windows and Linux right from the
 >> start.
 >
 >And don't forget the Mac ;-)

For a "proof-of-concept", implementations are needed for enough of the 
framework to make it obvious it can be make to work with GUI API's that 
follow the same general model. Particularly the 
event/callback/other-flow-of-control mechanisms. I know that Windows and X 
Window are major API's that follow very different flow-of-control models. 
Is the Mac sufficiently different to be an important proof-of-concept case? 
Are there others?

--Beman