[boost] Re: Re: Re: Re: GUI/GDI template library

2003-08-03 Thread Pavel Vozenilek
Terje Slettebø [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Make no mistake - this is a lot of work, too. However, it may be much less work than creating one from scratch. What do we want - vaporware of a Boost GUI library coming real soon now, perhaps not appearing for many

[boost] Re: Re: Re: Re: GUI/GDI template library

2003-08-03 Thread Philippe A. Bouchard
Pavel Vozenilek wrote: [...] Here is interesting review of five GUI toolkits, including wxWindows: http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/928/ For the Qt toolkit, they kinda forgot to mention that they work in parallel with the KDE project (http://kde.org) so they have a huge open source support

Re: [boost] Re: Re: Re: Re: GUI/GDI template library

2003-08-03 Thread Rene Rivera
[2003-08-03] Philippe A. Bouchard wrote: WxWindows don't have any intermediate compiler but the end user syntax is not attractive for the signal / slot mechanism (macros). Yes, and no. You can use the macros if you like that sort of stuff. But the signal/slot mecahnism is just as easilly

[boost] Re: Re: Re: Re: GUI/GDI template library

2003-08-02 Thread Bohdan
E. Gladyshev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Edward Diener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: E. Gladyshev wrote: The pImpl technique is an idiom for hiding the private methods and data members of a class from the view of the user of that class. By using a

Re: [boost] Re: Re: Re: Re: GUI/GDI template library

2003-08-02 Thread E. Gladyshev
--- Bohdan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: E. Gladyshev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message but which approach is better for GUI lib. I believe that I've made a strong case for ImplTraits for GUI library. In the win32 case, the compilation time penalties would be of the same order as including

Re: [boost] Re: Re: Re: Re: GUI/GDI template library

2003-08-02 Thread Beman Dawes
At 05:52 AM 8/2/2003, E. Gladyshev wrote: --- Bohdan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: E. Gladyshev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message but which approach is better for GUI lib. I believe that I've made a strong case for ImplTraits for GUI library. In the win32 case, the compilation time penalties