Re: [Boost-users] offtopic: std C++ / STL / boost-friendly UI framework?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] offtopic: std C++ / STL / boost-friendly UI framework?
From: Peter Barker (newbarker_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-09-18 10:47:32

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Ákos Maróy <akos_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is a bit of an offtopic question, but I wonder if there are any / if
> there will be any standard C++ / STL / boost friendly UI frameworks?
>
> When I look at UI libraries, like Qt or MS MFC, they all have their own
> constructs to generic concepts that are well (and better) covered in
> standard C++ / STL / boost. Like they have QArray, CArray, QFile, etc. etc.
>
> This is bad for a number of reasons. For one, one has to write a lot of
> adaptation code, like taking values from an STL iterator and filling a
> QArray with it, or the other way around. The second, much worse is that
> sloppy developers tend to stick with the UI-library specific constructs, and
> thus dig themselves into non-portable (in the case of MFC), or library- and
> license-specific (Qt which in GPL) code. And they are usually quite
> resistant to reasoning on using more generic and portable code for the same
> purpose.
>
> Thus I wonder - does anyone foresee a portable UI library which would be
> based on standard C++ / STL / boost? By this I mean that the generic
> constructs would be taken from here, and the UI library would really only
> contain things specific to UIs?
>
>
> Akos

I'd be really interested in learning about this too! It's annoying
trying to wean fellow developers off MFC's CString, CIntArray and the
like and writing the conversion code.

Pete