Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Luca,

Not wishing to start an argument, just to learn:

On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Luca Barbato wrote:

> The library is incompatible with itself depending on the configure time 
> options (see string constructors vs unicode string constructors)

It's perfectly possible to write code that compiles and works fine on 
Unicode and non-Unicode builds (with wxT() macros).

> Its ABI/API changes too often (ok, that is the result of they fixing 
> lots of bugs that require radical changes, but they could haven't been 
> on first place...)

Not sure about ABI changes, but as far as I can see, they work hard to 
avoid incompatible API changes in stable branches, e.g. wx 2.6.x.

> Its architecture is a tad old.

But if you change it, then you break backwards compatibility. You can't 
have it both ways. Besides, what's wrong with the "old" architecture?

> Try Qt or ewl/etk if you don't like the default tcl/tk look, all 4 are
> quite nicer architecture-wise and less painful to be handled as
> dependence.

QT is only now free on Windows, and supports far fewer platforms than wx 
(no Mac support?). I personally don't like tcl as a language, and prefer 
to code in C++ for efficiency.

> MFC and winapi are surely worst than wx, gtk on the other
> hand is simple and relatively easy to learn.

GTK is also specific to Unix (not Mac) and Windows, and looks weird on 
Windows, not very native.

> The main/only point of wx is that mimics quite well some sort of native
> look&feel, and that is just nice if you have to handle windows users or
> idiotic managers.

Or platforms other than Windows and Unix.

Cheers, Chris.
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