[ann] WIN32GUI v1.6.3 released

[jtorjo]

WIN32GUI v1.6.3 has been released.

Win32GUI is a FREE generic library for GUI programming
on the Windows platform, developed in parallel
to "Win32 GUI Generics" column in C/C++ Users Journal.

It is portable, and currently can be compiled with gcc3.3+, vc7.1,
como 4.3.4+ and vc8.

In this version:
- Lots of new docs, and finally, the Resource Splitter,
which makes programming much easier,
and type-safe at the same time!
You can now access controls on a dialog, somewhat similar to VB:
// m_dirs is a tree control
// find the top-most parent of a certain item
HTREEITEM cur = m_dirs->sel(), parent = 0;
while ( cur != 0)
parent = cur, cur = m_dirs->parent_item(cur);

handle_event on_dirs_change() {
HTREEITEM sel = m_dirs->sel();
// ...
return
event_ex<m_dirs_::ev::sel_change>().HANDLED_BY(&me:n_dirs_change);
}

- Finally, the Resource Splitter brings
a new Event system , much easier to use,
which is the beginning of platform-independent events!
You can read about this online (http://www.torjo.com/win32gui/doc/),
or by downloading win32gui + its documentation.
- New section, online articles: http://www.torjo.com/win32gui/articles/

Other Features:
* (v1.5+) tooltips, bitmap buttons, hyper links, lite HTML class
* thread-safe
* (v1.4+) save_dlg - true binding of your data to UI controls
* very easy to subclass controls/dialogs and deal with windows
generically
* GUI RAII
* revolutionary simple event handling (no message maps)
* thin yet powerful wrappers over all standard controls
(button,edit,...toolbar,rebar,etc.)
* 40+ examples and counting!

Best,
John

 

[matthias_k]

WIN32GUI v1.6.3 has been released.

Win32GUI is a FREE generic library for GUI programming
on the Windows platform, developed in parallel
to "Win32 GUI Generics" column in C/C++ Users Journal.

It is portable, and currently can be compiled with gcc3.3+, vc7.1,
como 4.3.4+ and vc8.

In this version:
- Lots of new docs, and finally, the Resource Splitter,
which makes programming much easier,
and type-safe at the same time!
You can now access controls on a dialog, somewhat similar to VB:
// m_dirs is a tree control
// find the top-most parent of a certain item
HTREEITEM cur = m_dirs->sel(), parent = 0;
while ( cur != 0)
parent = cur, cur = m_dirs->parent_item(cur);

handle_event on_dirs_change() {
HTREEITEM sel = m_dirs->sel();
// ...
return
event_ex<m_dirs_::ev::sel_change>().HANDLED_BY(&me:n_dirs_change);
}

- Finally, the Resource Splitter brings
a new Event system , much easier to use,
which is the beginning of platform-independent events!
You can read about this online (http://www.torjo.com/win32gui/doc/),
or by downloading win32gui + its documentation.
- New section, online articles: http://www.torjo.com/win32gui/articles/

Other Features:
* (v1.5+) tooltips, bitmap buttons, hyper links, lite HTML class
* thread-safe
* (v1.4+) save_dlg - true binding of your data to UI controls
* very easy to subclass controls/dialogs and deal with windows
generically
* GUI RAII
* revolutionary simple event handling (no message maps)
* thin yet powerful wrappers over all standard controls
(button,edit,...toolbar,rebar,etc.)
* 40+ examples and counting!

Best,
John


--
John Torjo, Contributing editor, C/C++ Users Journal
-- "Win32 GUI Generics" -- generics & GUI do mix, after all
-- http://www.torjo.com/win32gui/
-- http://www.torjo.com/cb/ - Click, Build, Run!

Sounds great, thanks John.

Regards,
Matthias