Windows GUI

Not sure if Ive asked this before but,
Anyone know of a good free class wrapper for GUI API's with subclassing for VC6?
I hate MFC and dont care for WTL? Anyone know of something better?

I started writing my own class wrappers that has methods similiar to VB. After completing class wrappers for textboxes,comboboxes,checkboxes,optionboxes and listboxes, I find that it is very time consuming and im dreading writing classes for the listview,treeview,progressbar and ect.

Thought Ide better check before wasting anymore time.


Thanks
Packetvb

Well, Qt was recently released under a free license for non-commercial apps. It's a great cross-platform class library, but it's nothing like the WinAPI.
GTK+ always was free and exists for Windows too. It's not the stablest of implementations though.
Borland's OWL is not free.
xWindows is free, cross-platform and quite stable. You could give this one a try.

Note however that the cross-platform libs strongly discourage subclassing or any other WinAPI specific stuff, because it breaks cross-platform compatibility.

Have to correct you there CornedBee....QT is now only free for Linux again. They stoped supporting the non commerciel licence for WIndows. But I still think I have a copy of QT 2.3X non commerciel version somewhere. Guess I could send it too you if you are intrested.

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Have to correct you there CornedBee....QT is now only free for Linux again. They stoped supporting the non commerciel licence for WIndows. But I still think I have a copy of QT 2.3X non commerciel version somewhere. Guess I could send it too you if you are intrested.

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The free windows version is still on their website. I downloaded it not more than a week ago

They only released it under the free license a few months ago. Why would they already revoke it?

OK...if they did put it up on the page again. Can anyone give me the link to it?

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Originally posted by packetVB
Not sure if Ive asked this before but,
Anyone know of a good free class wrapper for GUI API's with subclassing for VC6?
I hate MFC and dont care for WTL? Anyone know of something better?

I started writing my own class wrappers that has methods similiar to VB. After completing class wrappers for textboxes,comboboxes,checkboxes,optionboxes and listboxes, I find that it is very time consuming and im dreading writing classes for the listview,treeview,progressbar and ect.

Thought Ide better check before wasting anymore time.


Thanks
Packetvb

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Like you, I wrote my own wrappers for the simple controls and
also the status bar and listview with sorting and header bitmaps.

I think the treeview would be fairly easy after you see the
listview wrapper.

You could send me a private message and I would be glad to
share some of the source with you.

Sorry, I don't know of any other free wrapper classes.

I'm writing a few that use standard library semantics. So far I've done the core registry functionality.