Re: 'Graphics' of libwy

On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 11:54:43 -0500
Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:

David Brown wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
 

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I don't know if that will stop the C++ committee from trying to
pick or make a standard GUI library - after all, it's certainly an
appealing idea.  But if the "success" of C++'s threading support is
any judge, they have a hard road in front of them. 

 
I was just going to say "imagine how long that would get tied up in
the standards committee."
 
Anyhoo, years ago I used Borland's OWL and it was decent for the time.
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Years after that, Borland used VCL as it's C++ graphics library...
written in Object Pascal. Some weird shit went on in the debugger
with that one.
 

Should have been not many years.
Even Borland itself very quickly understood that OWL was crap.