RE: [boost] GUI library - another one

From: David Bergman (davidb_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-03-03 23:11:32

Shannon wrote: 

> > I understand you're not pushing that approach.  It couldn't 
> quite work 
> > like that as you're trying to structure a tree rather than 
> a sequence.
> 
> This is beside the point.  Trees are isomorphic to lists that 
> contain lists.  For example:
> 
> winout << title("Example window")
>        << divider(2) << up << ( panel << vertical 
>                                       << label("Hello, world!")
> 				      << textentry("Name: ") )
>                      << down << ( panel << horizontal
> 		                        << button("OK")
> 					<< button("Cancel") );

Ok, but why have the stream output syntax at all? And, why have line-by-line
layout. I would instead look at existing layout managers, such as in Java
(both AWT and Swing) or why not the good old platform-independent C++
library Galaxy?

/David