Re: [Boost-users] Boost thread conflicts with MFC

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost thread conflicts with MFC
From: Michael Fawcett (michael.fawcett_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-04-09 16:04:05

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Robert Ramey <ramey_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> Actually, I'm not all that happy with MFC. Â But whenver I consider
> something another alternative, I find them lacking. Â MFC is a huge
> body of code which is (mostly) well documented. Â I typically need
> and application to support some other project. Â Recent examples
> have been a GUI interface to and embedded system. Â My customers
> expect this "tail end" application to be doable in say two weeks or
> so. And they want it to "look like" a "standard" windows app including
> dockable tool bars, menus, email and web connectivity, support
> for things like file drag and drop. Â etc.
>
> The only thing I see that can do this besides MFC is Visual Basic.
> I haven't looked at C#. Â But those have even bigger downsides.

We mostly use C# and ATL for C++.  Have you considered ATL?  For our
cross-platform apps we use QT, GTK and wxWidgets.  Sometimes we just
use MainWin which has a port of most of the Win32 library.

--Michael Fawcett