RE: [boost] GUI library - another one

From: Jesse Booher (jbooher_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-03-04 09:14:51

>>> hurdm_at_[hidden] 03/03/04 10:30PM >>>
>> Even the "why not" version seems overly complex compared to a console
>> iostreams "Hello, world". Why not just:
>> 
>>       winout << title("Example window") << button("Hello, world!")
>>              << wait_for(delete_signal);
>> 
>> I'm not necessarily pushing that exact approach, but just pointing out
>> more
>> C++-like alternatives.
>
> 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.

Not that I'm pushing the approach either, but if all your objects that can be parents have an insertion operator then building a tree is simple a matter of adding parentheses:
tree << a << b << © << d << e << (f << g) );
or breaking it up
f << g;
c << d << e << f;
tree << a << b << c;