Re: [boost] Thoughts for a GUI (Primitives) Library

Subject: Re: [boost] Thoughts for a GUI (Primitives) Library
From: Pierre Morcello (pmorcell-cppfrance_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-09-02 15:45:51

>> Cory Nelson wrote: 
>> We could do _so much better_ than wxWidgets,
>> Qt, and GTK.  

We could also do worse :-) , given :
1/ the needed time that won't be available
2/ the fact that people have highly various needs for a GUI.
3/ that graphic designers are already trained on flash/web technologies (that can be used to do beautiful interfaces at cheap prices).

>>I think a better question is: could enough people agree on its design?

You could check notus (http://notus.sourceforge.net/) , which was developped by some boosters I think, and which has a modern c++ approach and also design documents.

If you are looking for a minimalist 'open window' gui library, I think it's possible to find very good multi-platform projects that can do that (dlib, cimg, ...).

Best regards,

Pierre Morcello