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The C Acorn User Group is providing space for discussing the design of Wimp class libraries.
These pages will contain material relevant to the design of a Wimp class library. It's up to you to make them a useful resource. If you have example code, references to useful material or you're prepared to write about aspects of a library then please contact me at caug@accu.org.
It would be useful to keep copies of relevant discussions from comp.sys.acorn.programmer on this site so there is a permanent central store of them. If you start a thread on c.s.a.p then, if you can, please edit the responses into a single discussion document and mail it to caug@accu.org.
Perhaps a better way to do this would be for a volunteer (this means you :-)) to edit together postings. It would mean that all relevant discussion ended up on this site.
Some papers referred to below (and that you might find by following other links) are in PostScript format. There is some information on how to read them.
Point and Rectangle classes from Paul Field.
A class library will need data structures and so it might be a good idea to base them on the STL, in anticipation of the real thing.
Interviews is a C++ graphical interface toolkit running on top of X windows. We might be able to steal some ideas from it and other libraries like it.
Last modified 19th July 1998
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