Shannon wrote:
I understand you're not pushing that approach. It couldn't quite work like that as you're trying to structure a tree rather than a sequence.
This is beside the point. Trees are isomorphic to lists that contain lists. For example:
winout << title("Example window") << divider(2) << up << ( panel << vertical << label("Hello, world!") << textentry("Name: ") ) << down << ( panel << horizontal << button("OK") << button("Cancel") );
Ok, but why have the stream output syntax at all? And, why have line-by-line layout. I would instead look at existing layout managers, such as in Java (both AWT and Swing) or why not the good old platform-independent C++ library Galaxy? /David