Re: [boost] GUI library - another one

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-03-03 11:37:57

Matthias Schabel wrote:
>
> As far as the demo program :
>
> int main(int argc, char* argv[])
> {
>      window w = create_window();
>      w->title("Example window");
>      w->contain(create_button(w, "Hello, world!"));
>      wait_for_signal(w->delete_signal);
> }
>
> why not :
>
> int main(int argc, char* argv[])
> {
>      window w("Example window"); // more consistent with button syntax
> below
>      w.add(button("Hello, world!"));       // no need to have w be a
> pointer?
>      w.wait_for(delete_signal());
> }
>
> or something like that.

Many C++ people like shallow copy things to explicitly have a pointer-like
syntax. I, personally, can happily tolerate either.

For an apples to apples comparison,

    window w("Example window");

should be compared with

    window w = create_window("Example window");

Finally,

    w.wait_for( delete_signal() );

just introduces a redundant top-level tag class and a corresponding
redundant window_base overload.