Re: [boost] Re: GUI Library Proposal for a Proposal

From: Jared McIntyre (jmcintyre_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-09 20:37:45

>But GUI is so much more than that. It's delivering nice-looking 
>dialogs to users, giving them a consistent look, showing them 
>tooltips, etc., and sometimes using every support from the OS to 
>make your app. as visually appealing as possible (for example, this 
>could mean using ::AlphaBlend on Win2000). And lets not forget hyper 
>links, HTML controls, splitters, bitmap buttons, easy tab dialogs, 
>having your application on the sys tray, easy menu handling, and so 
>on.

Which is why I like to use the native GUI system if available to 
develop the GUI.  Every platform has its own quarks, and the users 
really can tell the difference.

Jared McIntyre