On 10/22/07, Jeremy Pack <rostovpack@gmail.com> wrote:
You'll always see pushback against GUI libraries.
Java's GUI libraries, though flawed, are better than anything in C++.
I agree with Bjørn, just make your decisions. No committee. Then see if anyone likes it.
I have redesigned lots of things I putted in the email already.
It's way to easy to over-design something like this. I imagine the only way it would really work out well is if one lead programmer made all of the hard decisions, and had about 5 different experienced UI or library programmers implementing the innards.
I'm afraid I may have done that already. But I have some concerns about ODR and using the GUI library by other libraries linked to the same program. And that forced me some design decisions. I also liked the "plug-in" method I used for low-level implementations.
Oh, and in your code, you may want to consider allowing the programmer to just define, say, a BOOST_GUI_WIN32 macro, instead of passing around Win32 and GTK objects - as I think you were doing in the samples.
I didn't document, but there should be a "default" driver. On windows it would be win32, it could also be configurable with preprocessor (though not yet implemented, but *very easy* to do). Passing win32 and gtk objects just override the default.
Good luck.
Thanks!
Jeremy Pack
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