VC GUI components/libraries

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Hello there.


Could you recommend any decent GUI libraries meant for VC++ (unmanaged
code)? I've heard about Xtreme Toolkit by Codejock, what else is worth
looking into?

Regards,
P.
 
Hi,
Could you recommend any decent GUI libraries meant for VC++ (unmanaged
code)? I've heard about Xtreme Toolkit by Codejock, what else is worth
looking into?
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I evaluated Codejock and FOSS Prof-UIS. They seem very similar. For me a
small advantage in the grid control made me choose Codejock. Both are good
when it comes to their support forums to help you out when you start using
the components.
 
Could you recommend any decent GUI libraries meant for VC++ (unmanaged
code)? I've heard about Xtreme Toolkit by Codejock, what else is worth
looking into?
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- MFC is evil. Avoid it. It works initially, then you run into much
pain and suffering as soon as you try to do something that goes
outside what it was built to do.

- WTL (free download from MS) is a bit MFC-like, but avoids most of
the quirks. Plus, it makes executables that are a LOT smaller. Not
documented too well, as MFC sucks all the oxygen out of the air.

- http://trolltech.com/ (pay, unless you're open source) is quite
cross-platform. Never used it, but heard good things about it.

- http://www.wxwidgets.org/ is free, used by a number of things.
Never used it, but heard good things about it.

Nathan Mates
 
I evaluated Codejock and FOSS Prof-UIS. They seem very similar. For me
a small advantage in the grid control made me choose Codejock. Both
are
good when it comes to their support forums to help you out when you
start using the components.
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Is this stuff suitable for developing ActiveX/dynamic DLL libraries /
drivers, etc. that are expected to provide also wit pop-up dialog forms
at a certain point? I mean this is going to be a DirectShow Source
filter with possibility to set up its input filter capabilities on
demand, so this is going to be a dll registered with Regsvr32.

Cheers,
P.
 
Hi,
I evaluated Codejock and FOSSProf-UIS. They seem very similar.
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Hello,

I can only talk about Prof-UIS. We used it very intensively in several
products over the past few months.

The pure implementation of this product is good, but the documentation
is extremely brief and their tech support is not helpful at all as
soon as you face any problems, that are a bit more specific.

The concept of their library is a bit restricted, too. One simple
example: unlike Microsoft's dialog bars, which can be created on the
heap and as members of other objects and which can also have many
child windows, the Prof-UIS counterpart may only be created on the
heap and may only have one child. This seems to be a small detail but
if you have to port applications with hundreds of dialog bars with
several childs and created as members of other objects, then the
effort to port your application may be huge.

This is just an example of many and the answer of the tech support in
such cases ist usually "just follow our concept". They don't seem to
have a good feeling, what "time, effort and costs" mean for their
customers - they always look at it from a pure technical point of
view.

The only advise I can give is don't be dazzled by first feelings of
success and start a trial port of a more complex application, before
you decide.


Best wishes.
 
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