* Brian Braatz <brianb@rmtg.com> [2004-12-29 21:35]:

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-----Original Message----- From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Alan Gutierrez Libs

1) Documents.

Any new UI library without a flowing text strategy is doomed to failure.

Discuss. [Brian Braatz] ?????

First, I pulled the topic suggestion off of the Wiki page.

What is a flowing text strategy?

Discuss!

Most libraries are now working on having a solution to render text in paragraphs and columns. Users are now familiar with, and expect to see, hyperlinked documents. You don't need a full blown word processors, or web browser, but you need more than a "rich-text control". CSS defines different levels of what is expected. A UI library doesn't need to provide a CSS parser for a document renderer, just as one doesn't need to provide a RDBMS for a grid renderer, but one need to provide bi-directional flowing text. A UI library needs to see that rendering is not the same thing as layout. Layouts are a trick for rendering forms. Anyway, this discussion of window frames, and controls, it sounds like Visual Basic to me, and if that's all a Boost.GUI library want's to be, then it is nothing new. -- Alan Gutierrez - alan@engrm.com