From: Matthias Schabel (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-03-04 10:33:52
>> button("click me") doesn't have to be a widget. Think expression
>> templates. It can just build up a type to be used by window to add a
>> button.
>
> Well said. This exemplifies the reason why most gui toolkits are so
> horrible to use, they allow implementation technicalities to dictate
> interface. Having to decide where an object is going to live before
> any of its properties can be set is a clear violation of object
> oriented design principles but we live with these kind of problems all
> the time for supposed technical reasons.
Hear, hear! Given the huge number of half- to three-quarter-baked GUI
solutions floating around, I think that anything that's proposed for
boost should very carefully consider abstracting the problem in a way
which allows the most (or at least one of the) sensible and intuitive
syntaxes and then allow the design to drive implementation.
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