In my last post, I kinda whined about the awkwardness of the Gtkmm API. At least, it seemed that way at the time. I toyed with libglade and Gtk+ for a while first and everything seemed very straightforward and easy. Gtkmm and libglademm are different. They seemed awkward at first, but after further investigation, I [...]
I am trying to get some experience building graphical UIs using C++ after hours at work (and also to build a tool that would be useful there as well). I started looking into the various frameworks, and the truth is that there isn’t any magical silver bullet for C++. There is no Swing++, so to [...]
Ryan is disillusioned with C++. The analogy of C++-as-a-person-whom-I’m-going-to-divorce is kinda lame, but his criticisms are typical. I normally don’t get in blog wars like this, but for some reason, I’m feeling defensive tonight. He complains about C++ that “You can’t decide who you are”. What this means is that he thinks C++ behaves inconsistently. [...]