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From: David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
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Subject: Re: 'Graphics' of libwy
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 08:49:46 +0100
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On 17/12/2024 01:47, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> On 12/16/2024 3:29 AM, David Brown wrote:
>> On 15/12/2024 11:04, wij wrote:
>>> I had headache whenevr I think about graphics in C++. Why C++ does 
>>> not provide
>>> a graphics library (lots complaint about this), not even a simplest 
>>> one for
>>> demonstrating its 'power' of C++ itself? 
>>
>> There are 101 C++ graphics libraries, all with their pros and cons and 
>> different use-cases.  How could the C++ standard library pick just one 
>> of them?
> 
> Open Source and LGPL would be a good place to start.
>     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_widget_toolkits
> 

So that leaves - what - 20-odd different libraries from that page that 
are open source, cross-platform and suitable for C or C++ ?  And there's 
maybe an order of magnitude more that not on the Wikipedia page but are 
still established enough to be contenders.

Then you need to consider that the C++ world is not just *nix, MacOS and 
Windows - and that even for those, needs vary enormously (big, small, 
easy-to-use, wide selection of widgets, 2D, 3D, etc.).  The things /I/ 
want from a gui library for an embedded system are hugely different from 
what you would want on a PC.  And of course LGPL is useless for me.

No, that page is not really a good place to start - unless you are using 
it as a starting point for showing how meaningless it would be to try to 
pick a single gui library that is somehow "standard" for C++.


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.