Re: [boost] Re: GUI library - another one

From: Gregory Colvin (gregory.colvin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-03-03 10:43:52

On Mar 3, 2004, at 8:35 AM, Neal D. Becker wrote:

> David Turner wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> It seems that the idea of adding a medium-complexity GUI library to 
>> boost
>> is popular, but that there are widely varying opinions on how it 
>> should be
>> done.
>>
>> I've written a first draft of a library that fulfils most of my
>> expectations.  It's available at http://www.turn.co.za/david/gui.  It
>> supports two platforms (Win32 and GTK2), and four user interface 
>> elements
>> or widgets (window, label, button, text-entry).  The design is such 
>> that
>> it is extremely easy to support new platforms or widgets.
>> ...
>> I'd like to know what the boost community thinks before proceeding.

> Not to start any religious war here, but gtk is based on C.

So?

>   If I was going
> to start a new effort, I'd certainly prefer Qt/kde, which is c++ based 
> as a
> starting point.

Even better that the underlying toolkit be abstracted away, as appears
to be the case here.