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

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-03-04 13:00:01

At 08:55 AM 3/4/2004, David Abrahams wrote:
 >Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> writes:
 >
 >> At 09:57 PM 3/3/2004, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:
 >>
 >>  >If it is so simple that it does nothing more than can be done with
 >>  >simple input and output streams, then what is the point in having it 
at
 >>  >all?
 >>
 >> That's the point of the abstraction. To hide complexity ("A full-blown
 >> GUI") behind an apparently simple facade ("a window stream" or "a
 >> window object" or some other apparently simple abstraction).
 >
 >I'm all for simplicity, but trying to squeeze 2d graphical layout
 >into a 1d stream abstraction isn't the way to get there.

What is the best abstraction? That's the question I'm concerned with.

--Beman