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

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] offtopic: std C++ / STL / boost-friendly UI framework?
From: Johan Råde (rade_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-09-19 10:04:16

Ákos Maróy 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.
> 
> 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 use Qt and I have defined wrapper classes around many of the Qt classes
that convert Qt signals to boost signals,
Qt strings and containers to/from std strings and containers etc.
This setup is not perfect, but works quite well.

--Johan Råde