In article <08b601c48afa$eb621fb0$a901000a@mat>, "Mathew Robertson" <mathew.robertson@redsheriff.com> wrote:
So far during this thread, it may appear that I am saying dont bother... which is crap. It has been mentioned that there is no cross-platform GUI library. All I have tried to do is point out that there are other corss-platform libraries - and they are working hard at solving these vcry problems. Quite a few of them are open source, as such they tend to want to fix design flaws. The point being that they solved most of the problems discussed so far, yet they are still "not excellent" wrt. each point mentioned.
Every major C++ cross-platform library I am aware of has major issues wrt backwards compatibility and legacy C++ code (e.g., poor STL integration, poor user of namespaces, poor use of exceptions) even if you ignore the question of how well its user experience fares on non-Windows platforms. I don't know how hard they are working on it, but I have been waiting for years and I don't know of a single one that's adequate yet -- most of them are not even good enough as a starting point for what I would consider adequate. Also, I don't think that sprinkling open source pixie dust on them magically imbues them with special extraordinary ability or desire to fix design flaws :-) meeroh