>MFC are more useabel than using directly API. In fact, the real advantage
>of
>the MFC is to masking the HORRIBLE definition of the low level API of win32
>and
>to propose a standart canvas for building applications. MFC need a time to
>learn
>and undestanding the philosophie but after it's not so bad after, even if
>VCL/OWL are
>better !
Hi,
so I guess this means we won't use Windows' low-level APIs. One thing less
to worry about, I hope.
>I have no point of vue about this for the moment. I don't have enough
>informations
>about it for talking of this solution.
Well, I've just started using wx, but it's really beautiful. Not just that
it's cross-platform, but the APIs are so well thought-through. You can
write a program with very little code; reminds me of ANSI programs, but wx
uses a UI. Most of the stuff is already defined in Macros they ship, which
you just use. That is, you don't need to write an entry point that creates
your application object and starts it -- you just write
wxIMPLEMENT_APP(wxFreeCardApp) at the start of your main source file and it
works.
To handle a menu item, you just add
wxMENU_EVENT( kMyQuitMenuItemID, OnMyQuitHandler )
to the event table of your class, and that's it. You only have to code the
stuff that is specific to your program. Everything else is done by wx for
you. If anyone in high rank listened to me, I'd tell them to make wx the
API for all of their OSs.
And what's more, Stefan (the one who does the Mac port) told me he might
eventually do a 680x0 port, too. And what I've seen of the sources so far
looks like it'll compile under 680x0 with little changes. Only that it
relies on Appearance might require some coding, but even if we had to do
that ourselves, it'd be little work.
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
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