Subj : Re: wxWidgets
To   : comp.programming
From : Rene Moehring
Date : Tue Jul 05 2005 04:01 pm

On 5 Jul 2005 03:43:28 -0700, Rob Thorpe wrote:
> Phlip wrote:
>> Rob Thorpe wrote:
>>
>> > Personally I find it very tiresome that libraries like wxWidgets force
>> > the user to use C++ and the object-orientated paradigm exclusively to
>> > write GUI code.
>>
>> I hate it when a library written in OCaml forces an OCaml paradigm on me,
>> just to use it. What were they thinking??
>>
>> ;-)
>
> Oddly enough I've never had that problem :)
>
> My point is that it wxWindows would be much more useful if it was a
> library providing a set of library calls.  That way it could be used
> with any language.    Object-orientated wrappers could be written for
> C++ and other OO languages.
>

That would be very strange since wxWidgets is warapper for native widget
sets. So that would mean a wrapper written in c++ wrapped in what you
call library calls that have to be wrapped to be used in c++! There
simply has to be a point where the wrapping stops.

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