Bohdan wrote: [...]
>> There are a lot of good reasons why we would not always want to have >> total control. > > "Not always" means "sometimes not" ? > According to this logic your gui language is > layer built on top of interface proposed by me > ... just for convenience. Right ? I looks like a competition between the two of you... >> I want my applications to be as simple as possible, and >> to all look the same. > > Generally GUI applications are semantically complicated. > Forget about "universal cure" from this. Everithing you can > do is to symplify development in some cases. It doesn't make sense to start positionning every widget manually like this. What if you find you're interface ugly (p = 0.90) the first time and you have found a better idea? You are going to retype the position of every widgets in the whole application?!? If you are planning to do this, I suggest to use another GUI application which will generate the spaghetti part of you're code. >> If the GUI library picks the 'best' settings for >> the platform automatically, the individual programmer doesn't have to >> think about it. Everything just works like it should. To take a few >> things from your snippet that are suspect to me: >> >>> w.width( 400 ); >>> w.height( 200 ) >> >> Where do 400 and 200 come from? This seems arbitrary to me. The GUI >> system should be able to tell how to size itself. > > Have you invented universal algorithm for window size/position ? It is possible to use horizontal / vertical / grid layout recursively which will deduce the position of your widgets given your criterias. Another container-like widget; i.e. container oriented design. With experience it becomes easy. [...] > Generally runtime gui styles (flat, 3d ...) can be more helpful, > because changing look-and-feel in "application options" is very > frequent situation for serious GUI applications. Please don't be too > obsessed by compile > time, it is not very good way for GUI toolkit. I agree, you should draw some line between compile-time / run-time. Not to much run-time though. [...] >> - GUI code is difficult, tedious, and error prone even for simple >> tasks, >> I want to make it simple (for simple tasks) > > Agree! But only for simple tasks. You mean the opposite... The time required for complex applications would be exponential. [...] Philippe _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
