Re: libui: a portable GUI library for C
- Posted by petelomax Jun 21, 2016
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My work on libui does not invalidate my work on IUP. They're two quite different projects. But I'm very curious about where libui might be going so I'm trying to keep up with it as it's developed.
Glad to hear that.
Plus, with the recent addition of EuIup, I feel like we're starting to have too many cooks in the kitchen.
I just tried that, and have to say I was not impressed with that either. First thing I noticed is that IupSetAttributes does not even work!
It is a bit of a shame that the Phix wrapper deserves to be quite different internally (mainly no allocate_string calls), but no-one ever said life was fair.
I appreciate the efforts there but ... really discouraging when one is trying to improve the state of things.
You think you've got problems? Try being the sole person responsible for the entire language infrastructure underneath your IUP wrapper as well! 
On the documentation side, if there is by any slim chance anything I've written that may be useful, feel free to nick it. (Grab a copy of Phix.chm and see Other Libraries/pGUI.)
Pete
PS: Oh, I forgot to say: am having a go at porting Edita to IUP - the new GUI is fine, and I've blagged a fair few half-decent-sized blocks of gui independant stuff, but as was always expected, extricating some of that decade-old logic from its win32-only gui was never going to be particularly easy, and there is plenty of it.
