I'm sorry I was never able to follow through on my ideas for your library -- I just got too busy with other things. If there you feel there are some major architectural changes that need to be made, I'm still interested in collaborating. My main ideas were a introducing cascading style sheets and inline formatters using expression templates.
"cascading style sheets" - now there's a really cool concept! However, not sure how achievable it is... 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/ -- v1.4.0 - save_dlg - true binding of your data to UI controls! + easily add validation rules (win32gui/examples/smart_dlg)