Re: [boost] GUI

From: Reece Dunn (msclrhd_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-16 11:32:58

Adam Badura wrote:
> > Also, there is nothing stopping you doing:
> >
> >    window.SetText( std::string( "Hello World" ).c_str());
>
>     Naturally. Usability of library which cannot use "string" objects 
>would
>be a best bad.
>     But that makes code longer and harder to understand. STD is made to be
>used. What for do we have all those classes if every library makes its own
>(without deriving them from stnadard classes).
>     It is not a case of life or death but i think it is a good habit (to 
>use
>standard classes) and makes a library (generaly) better.

You would use the above to interact with (GUI) libraries that do not have 
std::xstring support, just like you would with the C-style functions, 
ifstream and others. Granted, this situation is not ideal and there are 
proposals to add std::xstring variants for the C/C++ standard library 
functions.

With a standard GUI library proposal, you would use std::[w]string 
(depending on the character support for the platform). That is a no brainer. 
What I was referring to is how you would interact with legacy GUI libraries 
that don't have inbuilt std::[w]string support, for example:

   namespace gui { namespace detail { namespace wtl
   {
      struct window
      {
         void set_text( const gui::string & text )
         {
            SetText( text.c_str());
         };
      };
   }}}

- Reece