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

From: Matthias Schabel (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-03-04 10:33:52

>> button("click me") doesn't have to be a widget.  Think expression
>> templates.  It can just build up a type to be used by window to add a
>> button.
>
> Well said.  This exemplifies the reason why most gui toolkits are so  
> horrible to use, they allow implementation technicalities to dictate  
> interface.  Having to decide where an object is going to live before  
> any of its properties can be set is a clear violation of object  
> oriented design principles but we live with these kind of problems all  
> the time for supposed technical reasons.

Hear, hear!  Given the huge number of half- to three-quarter-baked GUI  
solutions floating around, I think that anything that's proposed for  
boost should very carefully consider abstracting the problem in a way  
which allows the most (or at least one of the) sensible and intuitive  
syntaxes and then allow the design to drive implementation.

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