I totally agree with your statements besides javascript, win32 & .NET because you know better this stuff than I do. The only platform dependent utils you need is stylish fonts, locales, frames, rectangles, windows & menus in the end.
A spinbox is basically a lineedit with 2 button; a combobox is a lineedit, one button and one listbox; a listview is a tree / list view; a spreadsheet is a multi_array of lineedits. [Excuse me I am deviating the discussion again] What about: ifstream fin(...); fin >> myapplication; uiout << myapplication; ;) Jonathan D. Turkanis wrote: > Do I detect some sarcasm here? I thought it was fairly clear why I > mentioned javascript, win32, etc. Did I say something you agree with? > Something obvious? I can't tell. > > "Philippe A. Bouchard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... >> It smells like what I was saying in part besides the javascript, >> win32 API & .NET. What is the definition of a widget? It is >> basically the visual representation of a container. In ten years >> from now, I expect to cout my application to the screen: >> >> typedef tree<window< tree<container< list<widget< >> list<entry<stringstream, ...> >, ...> >, ...> >, ...> > >> myapplication; >> >> myapplication application; >> >> for_each(application.begin(), application.end(), print(uiout)); Philippe A. Bouchard _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
