blog: WTL docking framework

fgagnon · Post by **fgagnon** » 2011 Apr 15, 18:27

Tuxman wrote:So what does it tell you about me that I like my Windows oldschool non-transparent 3D and grey?

< butting in ...? > It tells *me* that you are a traditional sort and very particular in his ways. Recognizable from the perspective of "It takes one to know one" and evidenced in part by my open displeasure with the glassy Aero style themes, preferring shades of green-to-grey in the opaque XP classic style on all my machines. & I sure wish chrome would honor my chosen theme(s)... other than that, it's a fine browser.

Tuxman · Post by **Tuxman** » 2011 Apr 15, 18:41

Chrome is a browser?
Seen better ones...

Kilmatead · Post by **Kilmatead** » 2011 Apr 15, 18:52

fgagnon wrote:It tells *me* that you are a traditional sort and very particular in his ways.

Or, more particularly, he prefers a more staid, tried, tested, and true elemental design. Our esteemed colleague is German, after all, and has yet to exhibit the hidden Herzog-esque madness which is no doubt present, but suppressed in the realm of File Mangement GUI's. No bad thing, that. But then, he's not trying to sell a file manager. (Unless he's more devious than experimental...)

Chrome, as itself, tells us more about Google itself, than it serves as a mere "alternative" browser. Soylent Green taught us that "people are food" - Chrome is just a step towards inculcating the masses towards accepting the nonsense of The Cloud.

Post by **nikos** » 2011 Apr 16, 05:15

we need a soapbox area for the forum...

Tuxman · Post by **Tuxman** » 2011 Apr 16, 05:18

We already have it, although I can't really understand the cryptical title "xplorer² Professional".

snemarch · Post by **snemarch** » 2011 Jul 01, 17:41

nikos wrote:ok i made it so you can lock the dockbars to lose the titlebars. Once docked they stay in place but can be resized like splitters

I personally can't stand dockbars in most applications, doing it this way is a great compromise. Thanks, Nikos!

mvisual · Post by **mvisual** » 2011 Jul 08, 22:01

There is a library by Sergey Klimov that many people use in WTL. Personally I find it distasteful — immediately when I saw links to STL and Boost, I knew it wasn't for me

Nikos, at the time you wrote this I felt the same way and stuck to ATL/WTL for 10 years. Time has proven that it was the right decision those days.

ATL/WTL development is still vibrant but I have the feeling that STL will dominate future template-based development, especially where parallelism is concerned.

Has your view of STL changed at all?

Post by **nikos** » 2011 Jul 09, 05:07

for the kind of GUI software I work on, I see no point in STL and all these advanced template libraries, but there could be other uses for other people of course

snemarch · Post by **snemarch** » 2011 Jul 09, 15:25

Are you so much against STL that you're still using new/delete or malloc/free instead of std::vector? Or is it stuff like <algorithm> you aren't using? (That *was* super clunky to use before lambdas).