[Cxxgui-devel] RE: is cxxgui dead?

[David T. <dkt...@te...>]

Hi =D7=BF=C7=BF


> 	i'm very interesting in a boost style gui libarary.i=20
> found two project aimed it, yours cxxgui and the one named=20
> notus.but the cvs has updated nothing since these months,so=20
> is it dead or u just pause a while to something else?=20

I'm still alive, and I have actually been working on cxxgui.
Unfortunately I have changed jobs twice in the last three months, so
I've been very busy :-).  If you would like to get involved in the
development, I would be most glad of the help.  Please get in touch with
me if you'd like to take up development of various pieces.

The difference between notus and cxxgui is as follows.  Cxxgui is aimed
at rather low-level "imperative" interface programming.  Its primary aim
is to provide a portability layer, with very little extended
functionality.  The idea is that you should be able to put together a
simple interface very quickly.  However, it provides hooks to allow
vendors to enhance the API with platform-specific functionality.  A
drawing library will be provided separately through this mechanism.
Notus on the other hand is more of a presentation manager, aimed at
abstracting the various ways of presenting information.  Notus could
very well end up using cxxgui as its back-end.

As things stand, cxxgui is usable for very simple interfaces (data entry
forms, for example).  I'm busy working on the list view widget.
Currently GTK and the Win32 User API are supported as platforms.

Cxxgui uses an automatic layout mechanism based on grids (tables),
although I will probably provide a fixed-layout widget at a later stage.

Hope you find this useful.

Regards
David Turner