Christopher Diggins Object Oriented Template Library (OOTL) http://www.ootl.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Johnson" <musical.matthew@mac.com> To: <boost@lists.boost.org> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 7:52 PM Subject: [boost] gui library
I spent some time reading the archives regarding the gui project that was started towards the end of last year. Is that project still underway? What is the best way of keeping up with the status of it?
Thanks, Matthew
Hi Matthew, I have already started work individually on a GDI library using the Boost Interfaces Library. Rather than tackling the big problem of GUI, I am first trying to solve the subproblem of a generic GDI. I already have a working prototype (a Logo style turtle-graphics library) to which I want to add some more features before sharing it with the list. My approach is to create a generic library based on interfaces which requires an implementation adapter layer which implements a minimal set of GDI primitive operations. This way a user can use the same drawing code across different toolkits. There are so many GDI libraries (Win32 api, MFC, VCL, wxWidgets, Motif, XLib, DirectX, OpenGL, Qt, ...) and I think it is important to be able to use the same drawing code across different GDI libraries. Afterwards I plan on later introducing an event handling library based on interfaces, then a widget library, and finally tying all portions together to create a big gui library. Anyway, that's the plan for now. If there is interest in an interfaces graphics library, I plan on maintaining discussion on this list. If the group's preference is in another kind of library, I will simply continue development on it for the OOTL library (the mailing list is at http://groups-beta.google.com/group/ootl/ ). CD