On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 9:08 PM, David Abrahams<dave@boostpro.com> wrote:
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Have you looked at Adam and Eve from Adobe,
Yes.
and the associated research papers?
No. Do you know where can I find it?
I think these guys have gone a long way down the road to figuring out how to do things "right" in that domain.
They did. But they took a very different approach. With another language and all. Though I understand it can help a lot using a more specific language for GUI, I'm not still convinced it is the best approach. I think a C++-only, with RAII, exceptions, library can be very easy to use as well. It is easier to extend with implementation-specific code too. Though eve can be used separately. When I started creating cppgui, I had to create GUIs for Microsoft Management Console, which had to allow me to create windows from already constructed windows (with already registered window_procedures in win32) and resource files. One of the most important goals of cppgui library is to be usable almost everywhere. Though I do have plans for creating a DSEL to model windows in the very far future. It would still be C++. No parsers, nor highly-dynamic-scripted languages involved. I just hope there's space for cppgui's goals after adam and eve.
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