On Mon, 06 Jan 2014 09:50:48 -0800, FreeSlave <[email protected]>
wrote:
I'm not familiar with Cinder library yet (seems it does not support
Linux, so it's not very interesting for me), but I suppose graphics
library should provide at least two approaches to build graphic
applications. The first one is something that SDL and SFML offer: user
has to manually write cycle loop for event handling. The second one is
more complicated: event loop is encapsulated by some Application class
which automatically dispatches events to gui elements and provide
signal-slot system to ease creation of application logic (like Qt
library does). The second approach implementation may be built on the
first one, but it should not be the only. Sometimes the first approach
is more easy and it has no overhead of all these high-level gui
abstractions.
I tend to agree that we need both, but in terms of writing API simplicity
the second option is actually better. The first one will require some
interesting and probably not idiomatic...
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Adam Wilson
IRC: LightBender
Aurora Project Coordinator
