Hi Reece,
I am currently designing a GUI framework in C++ (initially targeting the Windows platform) that uses a model similar to that which Java uses in it's AWT and Swing libraries. Specifically:
[snip] It seems that what you're at is a full-blown standalone C++ GUI library. Maybe, it's good goal, but there a lot of toolkits already. I think it's not likely that just a new library will find a lot of users. If somebody has Qt or GTK application, he won't rewrite it just because your library is cleaner or better in some other way. But I think it's possible to create something with some chance for success. It's portable GUI library which *integrates* with existing toolkits. So that, you can create a widget using new library and plug that widget into existing application. For example, you want to visualise a graph. You code the algorithm using boost::gui and then the resulting boost::graph::layout library should be usable in all toolkits supported by boost::gui. If that's the case, than using boost::gui becomes very attractive. The specific interface is not important. Just for example: boost::gui::widget w = canvas_view(300, 300); make_qt_widget(w, parent); Thoughts? - Volodya