Also, what if you have a large number of GUI components? Storing them in the frame class would just increase the size of the object to the point where it is unusable.
Also, doing:
frame.add( gui::button( "Boost!" )); frame.add( gui::textbox( "Hello", 25, true ));
What you could do is: frame->add<gui::button>("Boost!"); frame->add<gui::textbox>("hello", 25, true); Internally, they will map to new gui::button("boost") and new gui::textbox( "hello", 25, true) Thus, there will NO copying whatsoever. Best, John -- John Torjo -- john@torjo.com Contributing editor, C/C++ Users Journal -- "Win32 GUI Generics" -- generics & GUI do mix, after all -- http://www.torjo.com/win32gui/ -- v1.4 - save_dlg - true binding of your data to UI controls! + easily add validation rules (win32gui/examples/smart_dlg)