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

2003-08-14 Thread Brock Peabody
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bronek Kozicki Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 2:06 AM To: Boost mailing list Subject: Re: Re: Re: [boost] GUI/GDI template library E. Gladyshev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know much about

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

2003-08-14 Thread Bronek Kozicki
E. Gladyshev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know much about other GUI systems but win32 and MFC. I think we can try to define the low-level layer using win32 and/or MFC as the starting point. Please, do NOT use MFC. Just native Win32 API as a starting point. MFC is 1) not available on mingw

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

2003-08-14 Thread Douglas Gregor
- Original Message - From: Brock Peabody [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do you think we will be OK restricting this library to the more conformant compilers? That should be fine. Compiler workarounds can often be added later, and you shouldn't need to worry about these from the start. In fact, we

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

2003-08-09 Thread E. Gladyshev
--- Brock Peabody [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That might be a better way to go. I just don't know enough about GUI systems other than MFC to be able to envision what a scheme like that would look like or if it would succeed. You might save a lot of work coming up with a single low-level

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

2003-08-04 Thread E. Gladyshev
--- Brock Peabody [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/ The name is boost_gui.zip. There is a ton of code, but the interface I think, your library has a lot of good stuff. However it does need a major redesign to cleanly remove all direct references to the

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

2003-08-04 Thread Brock Peabody
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of E. Gladyshev Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 11:29 AM To: Boost mailing list Subject: RE: Re: [boost] GUI/GDI template library --- Brock Peabody [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http

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

2003-08-04 Thread E. Gladyshev
--- Brock Peabody [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If we can keep our interface simple it might be easiest to just make the library an interface specification which is implemented totally independently for each target platform. Does that seem reasonable? I agree. I think we can have 2 layers.

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

2003-08-04 Thread Brock Peabody
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of E. Gladyshev Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 1:03 PM To: Boost mailing list Subject: RE: Re: Re: [boost] GUI/GDI template library --- Brock Peabody [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If we can keep our

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

2003-08-04 Thread E. Gladyshev
--- Brock Peabody [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This saves us from having to find a representational scheme that will fit on top of an unknown number of platforms which might not have anything in common. I think this is where we disagree. I prefer to find a single low-level represntation

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

2003-08-04 Thread Brock Peabody
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of E. Gladyshev Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 2:33 PM To: Boost mailing list Subject: RE: Re: Re: [boost] GUI/GDI template library --- Brock Peabody [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This saves us from