On 9/1/2010 3:38 PM, Ralf Globisch wrote:
Giorgio Zoppi 09/01/10 2:17 PM>>> I don't know if there's enough space for this. There are a plenty of GUIs Framework, like Qt or wxWindows, which are more advanced.
wxWindows is horrendous as a modern C++ GUI library. It uses C++ as it was used some 15 to 20 years ago and makes endless excuses about why its dialect of C++ must never be upgraded centered around support for hopelessly non-compliant C++ compilers. Qt is a proprietary framework, also not using modern C++ but its own in-house ideas instead, which have long ago been superceded by modern C++ constructs such as in Boost libraries. Furthermore one can not create commercial applications with it without either releasing the source code or paying Trolltech, or whoever owns them now, some large amount of money. Neither solution is practical for Boost end-users. There are also lots of other C++ GUI systems around, none of which I have ever found personally flexible enough. Whoever would be capable of creating a modern C++ GUI system, as difficult as it would be to do, might find it worthwhile. However a number of others have pursued this goal in the past with appropriate Boost vault and Boost sandbox libraries, without getting very far in interesting other Boost users/developers in the practical usage of their systems, or encountering endless discussions and disagreements among programmers who want different things in their GUI library. So I too think it is an extremely difficult task but not for the reason that there exists anything out there good enough or useful enough as an alternative.