[boost] Re: GUI Windowing Framework in C++

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-25 07:48:40

John Torjo <john.lists_at_[hidden]> writes:

>> 
>> Also, what if you have a large number of GUI components? Storing
>> them in the frame class would just increase the size of the object
>> to the point where it is unusable.
>> Also, doing:
>>    frame.add( gui::button( "Boost!" ));
>>    frame.add( gui::textbox( "Hello", 25, true ));
>> 
>
> What you could do is:
>
> frame->add<gui::button>("Boost!");
> frame->add<gui::textbox>("hello", 25, true);
>
> Internally, they will map to
> new gui::button("boost") and
> new gui::textbox( "hello", 25, true)
>
> Thus, there will NO copying whatsoever.

Or you could just build pimpl gui objects with shared reference
semantics so people could copy them about naturally.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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