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  1. Jan 13th, 2004, 03:19 AM #1
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    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.


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    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.
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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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    Originally posted by NoteMe
    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.
    The free windows version is still on their website. I downloaded it not more than a week ago
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    They only released it under the free license a few months ago. Why would they already revoke it?
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    OK...if they did put it up on the page again. Can anyone give me the link to it?
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    Re: Windows GUI

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