Re: 'Graphics' of libwy

On 17/12/2024 17:54, Chris Ahlstrom 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.
 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.
 

I only used Borland C++ Builder on a couple of small projects.  The thing that bugged me was the number of string types involved in doing anything much - you had C strings, Pascal strings (fixed length and dynamic), Windows strings, all with wide character variations.