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 McGill (petermcgill_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-09-18 10:56:55

I do not know of any at the moment but it would be nice.

However wxWidgets version 3 may be. They are considering
incorporating stl / boost among other things. I suspect that
this may take a while however.
http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Development:_wxTNG

Peter McGill
IT Systems Analyst
Gra Ham Energy Limited 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden] 
> [mailto:boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Akos Maroy
> Sent: September 18, 2008 10:20 AM
> To: boost-users_at_[hidden]
> Subject: [Boost-users] offtopic: std C++ / STL / 
> boost-friendly UI framework?
> 
> 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
> 
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