Subject: Re: GUI Application Frameworks for Windows ??
From: stefan@olson.acme.gen.nz (Stefan Olson)
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In <1993Apr12.154418.14463@cimlinc.uucp> bharper@cimlinc.uucp (Brett Harper) writes:
>Hello,
>  
>  I'm investigating the purchase of an Object Oriented Application Framework.  I have
>come across a few that look good:

>  Zapp 1.1 from Inmark
>  Zinc 3.5 from Zinc software
>  C++/Views from Liant
>  Win++ from Blaise

>Some considerations I'm using:

>  Being new to Windows programming (I'm from the UNIX/X world), the quality and
>intuitivness of the abstraction that these class libraries provide is very 
>important.  However, since I'm not adverse to learning the internals of Windows
>programming, the new programming methodology should be closely aligned with
>the native one.  I don't believe arbitrary levels of abstraction, just for the
>sake of changing the API, are valuable.

The Microsoft Founation classes (afx) that come with C/C++ 7.0 (and 
Visual C++) are very good, they already have a version for NT,
it comes with source code, and is very close to the navtive API.
It also as some classes to manage data structures...

...Stefan

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