Re: [boost] GUI library: vapourware?

From: Simon Buchan (simon_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-29 20:39:49

Pavel Vozenilek wrote:
> "Andy Little" wrote:
>>>If anything you may join existing "modern C++"
>>>GUI library like John Torjo's win32gui,
>>
>>Is win32gui ever seriously going to target anything other than Windows?
>>
> AFAIK yes. John started preparations for GTK support though
> he "would welcome other's help".
> 
>>>SmartWindows++,
>>
>>SmartWindows looks like it follows the Windows API slavishly
>>
> Yes. My personal opinion is that win32gui is more abstract.
> 
>>Ultima++ has little or no documentation
>>
> Well, it is work of two guys who also created their own STL,
> full featured IDE, scripting language and other things.
> I am amazed how much they did
> 
Hmm.  I got the same feeling using it that I get if I use MFC, that the 
IDE knows more about whats going on than I do, and the whole vertical 
stack thing is normally considered to be quite bad, isn't it?
> 
>>unfortunately VCF certainly looks quite
>>interesting and  I hope to look further at it, though they seem from an 
>>initial
>>glance to be duplicating a lot of functionality  eg streams, strings and 
>>their
>>own date-time library.
>>
> Having own string class looks as mandatory for GUI lib writers ;-)
> 
> I guess you see NIH syndrom and attempt to completely control
> code base. Quite typical for projects with few people.
> 
> /Pavel
> 
For those who have no idea what NIH is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Invented_Here