tjonz@caliban.Sun.COM (Todd Jonz, KB6JXT) (05/22/91)
I enjoy reading "comp.windows.ms.programmer" when I get the time, but the volume is so large that I don't find the time very often. I am, however, quite interested in exchanging information and code with other users of the C++/Views class library. Are there any C++/Views users out there who would be interested in joining an e-mail alias dedicated to the discussion of C++/Views issues? I purchased C++/Views because I wanted a high level encapsulation of the Windows environment that would insulate me to the greatest extent possible from the seamier parts of Windows' underbelly. (I consider writing directly to the Windows API to be the moral equivalent of assembly programming, i.e. something to be done as a last resort when no better solution can be found. No offense intended to the hairy-chested programmers in the crowd.) So far, it's working; I've been using the library for about a month now, and I haven't seen an hWnd or a WndProc* yet! While I realize that CNS is positioning C++/Views as a platform-independent development tool, I'm not particularly concerned with portability to other environments on which the the product may one day be implemented. As a result, I would be particularly interested to hear from anyone who has extended the library to support more of the Windows API than it does as distributed. For example, I would like to have color and max/min buttons in objects derived from the View class, and I can't imagine that I'm the first person to desire this functionality. I would hope that the e-mail alias I have proposed would help all of us avoid reinventing the wheel on matters such as this. -- Todd