RE: [boost] Re: GUI sublanguage ?

2003-08-14 Thread Brock Peabody
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Bohdan > Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 5:46 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [boost] Re: GUI sublanguage ? > [...] > > There are a lot of good reasons why we wo

[boost] Re: GUI sublanguage ?

2003-08-14 Thread Bohdan
"Philippe A. Bouchard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Bohdan wrote: > > [...] > > >> There are a lot of good reasons why we would not always want to have > >> total control. > > > > "Not always" means "sometimes not" ? > > According to this logic your gui language is

[boost] Re: GUI sublanguage ?

2003-08-14 Thread Philippe A. Bouchard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > After having followed this thread I wander if we are trying to > reinvent > the wheel. By googling a bit one can find plenty of "Gui Toolkits" and > here I saw little of them. Not a word on Qt, for example. I never > used it for an important project but they give

[boost] Re: GUI sublanguage ?

2003-08-12 Thread Bohdan
"Brock Peabody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Because for a pretty large number of applications you can really > simplify your code a lot by relying on the GUI system to 'do the right > thing': > >using boost::gui; > >void my_action() {...} >void progr

RE: [boost] Re: GUI sublanguage ?

2003-08-10 Thread Brock Peabody
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Philippe A. Bouchard > Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 4:04 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [boost] Re: GUI sublanguage ? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [...

[boost] Re: GUI sublanguage ?

2003-08-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Adobe has a tool called ADM - Adobe Dialog Manager, which is used in many > of their > programs. You can see the docs for ADM in (for example) the Acrobat SDK, > since > you can use ADM when writing plugins for Acrobat. > > In ADM, you define your dialogs in a text-based format, giving control

RE: [boost] Re: GUI sublanguage ?

2003-08-08 Thread Brock Peabody
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Joel de Guzman > Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 5:51 PM > To: Boost mailing list > Subject: Re: [boost] Re: GUI sublanguage ? > > Brock Peabody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

[boost] Re: GUI sublanguage ?

2003-08-07 Thread Philippe A. Bouchard
Bohdan wrote: [...] >> There are a lot of good reasons why we would not always want to have >> total control. > > "Not always" means "sometimes not" ? > According to this logic your gui language is > layer built on top of interface proposed by me > ... just for convenience. Right ? I looks like

Re: [boost] Re: GUI sublanguage ?

2003-08-06 Thread Joel de Guzman
Brock Peabody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Have you invented universal algorithm for window size/position ? > > It works surprisingly well. I know I described it in detail in an > earlier post, I can sum it up again if you like. It works well > especially if you need complete resizability. Pl