> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Philippe A. Bouchard > Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 1:09 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [boost] Re: GUI/GDI sample library code > > It seems really great & simple to use, but one thing I would like is > default > settings. When I insert a string, I would like a lineedit to appear by > itself. If I insert a list<string>, a listbox should appear immediately. > Why? Often you want to create an internal application a fast as you can > and > you don't want to spend time learning too much new function names. Think > of > <iostream>; if you want to have special formattings then you include > <iomanip> and you start playing around with floating point precision, > right > alignments, etc. But you don't really need <iomanip>.
That's a cool idea! > > What if I want 3, 4 or 11 columns? You can put as many as you want, up to a limit configured by a macro. I use the boost preprocessor library to generate the appropriate functions. There is also a grid<> function similar to row and column that makes a more... gridlike layout. row (a, b, c, column(d, e, f, g, h, i, row(j, k, l, m, n, o, p))); grid<2>(a,b,c,d); //2 specifies 2 columns, may be a better syntax for this > > Associating data type with widget type at run-time means you need to > traverse the entire tree of data & widgets and this can never be done > automatically? I would really like having the option of flushing out my > list to some uiout stream... Boost would then be way out ;) > > I would like to get more involved and start writing down my ideas but I am > not working on a project like this actually, professionnally speaking. > Good > luck! > Thanks! I know my implementation is not good enough for boost, but it's a place for us to start. I've been severely limited in what I can do by VC 6. Besides the known issues I keep getting ICE's when I don't expect them. I would strongly suggest dropping VC 6 support in whatever library we develop for boost. Brock _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
