Pavel Vozenilek wrote:
"Andy Little" wrote:
If anything you may join existing "modern C++" GUI library like John Torjo's win32gui,
Is win32gui ever seriously going to target anything other than Windows?
AFAIK yes. John started preparations for GTK support though he "would welcome other's help".
SmartWindows++,
SmartWindows looks like it follows the Windows API slavishly
Yes. My personal opinion is that win32gui is more abstract.
Ultima++ has little or no documentation
Well, it is work of two guys who also created their own STL, full featured IDE, scripting language and other things. I am amazed how much they did
Hmm. I got the same feeling using it that I get if I use MFC, that the IDE knows more about whats going on than I do, and the whole vertical stack thing is normally considered to be quite bad, isn't it?
unfortunately VCF certainly looks quite interesting and I hope to look further at it, though they seem from an initial glance to be duplicating a lot of functionality eg streams, strings and their own date-time library.
Having own string class looks as mandatory for GUI lib writers ;-)
I guess you see NIH syndrom and attempt to completely control code base. Quite typical for projects with few people.
/Pavel
For those who have no idea what NIH is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Invented_Here