In his article "The Design of C++0x", published in C/C++ Users Journal, May 2005, the author of C++ Bjarne Stroustrup wrote, "The most commonly requested new feature for C++ is a standard GUI". I am new to Boost and will appreciate if some folks here would give me a summary of Boost organization's standing on such a standard GUI library. If and how was it addressed and pointers to work on the subject if such has been done. I just want to clarify, that when I say "standard", I mean that as long as my application source code adheres to that standard, if I take it and walk into any machine that has a C++ compiler (at least one that deserves that title), compilation would at least not fail for syntax reasons, w/o me changing a single character in the source (not even changing the case of a character), no matter how complex and/or large that source is. I don't know how to avoid a sea of answers with this mailing list arrangement (not that I think that my 2.6GB gmail box would soon fill up...), may be the few answers can be posted on the newsgroup forum? Thanks in advance for the education, David