Re: [boost] [gui] Help with a little experiment.

Subject: Re: [boost] [gui] Help with a little experiment.
From: Artyom Beilis (artyomtnk_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-06-18 10:55:57

----- Original Message ----
> 
> Should be. Now, here  is a small PoC of DSEL for GUI I had in mind for quite a 
>while. Everythign in  there is proto-ifable.
> 
> windows<dialog,  some_tag_for_selecting_gui_backend> w;
> 
> w = frame("Choose a File to  Open")
>     [
>        listbox<columns,no_icons>(pos_x,pos_y)
>       [
>          on_select = ...
>       , on_move =  ...
>       ]
>       ,
>        button("&OK", on_click =&do_ok)
>     | button("&Cancel",  on_click =&do_cancel)
>     ];
> 
> 
> where the on_xxx are  terminal where = awaits for any callable object.
> 
> Using [ ]  to  construct nesting is easier than << I  think.
> 
> 
> 

Please tell me how is this better, more readable, maintainable then
this code:

  http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.3/tutorial-t5.html

But it rises many issues:

1. Where button is created and who owns it?
2. How do I connect signals afterward?
3. How would an average programmer would understand a error
   codes you would see?

Making a GUI library is not about providing 
nice syntactic sugar for building layout.

Syntactic sugar is the last thing that should interest your.

For GUI you need a core... Once you get it running
on Windows/Unix/Mac OS X have full Unicode support, 
that handles layouts provides nice sets of widgets.

This is what you should work...

This ^^^ would only the library less useful for average
programmer who actually needs to write a real code
for real application... Not in a fancy world of Proto...

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And to be honest, there are two very good libraries
that already do it: Qt and GTKmm...

Artyom Beilis
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