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

From: John Torjo (john.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-10 04:19:23

Jared McIntyre wrote:

>> 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.
> 
True. I want to make it easy for win32gui to be ported to other platforms.

Then, when using win32gui, you'll be able to choose from:
- use all of your OS's GUI power (go native)
- choose the lowest common denominator (easier to go platform independent)
- use a mix of the two

Best,
John

-- 
John Torjo,    Contributing editor, C/C++ Users Journal
-- "Win32 GUI Generics" -- generics & GUI do mix, after all
-- http://www.torjo.com/win32gui/
-- v1.5 - tooltips at your fingertips (work for menus too!)
    + bitmap buttons (work for MessageBox too!)
    + tab dialogs, hyper links, lite html