From: thomas DOT nichols AT iname DOT com (Thomas Nichols) Subject: Re: Precompiled headers in egcs? (was MFC with egcs 1.1) 12 Oct 1998 17:25:46 -0700 Message-ID: <3.0.2.32.19981012084349.006c6770.cygnus.gnu-win32@email.mcmail.com> References: <199810111914 DOT QAA02974 AT swan2 DOT uspnet DOT usp DOT br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Hilton Fernandes Cc: "gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" Hilton, >If you're not exclusively interested in MFC, but in some OO library >that can make easier the development of GUI apps, you should take a >look at wxWindows, found in > > http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/ > >and V, that can be found in > > http://www.objectcentral.com Thanks for these, both of which I've checked out previously. wxWindows version 2 looks quite promising, but neither of them seem to have anything like the scope and power of Zinc at http://www.zinc.com This is very "clean", fully OO/event driven, has a graphical cross-platform "resource editor" (Zinc Designer) which allows (e.g.) graphical positioning of derived window objects and automatic code generation. Although this is currently a commercial product, there is a "Personal Version" of Zinc, which can be downloaded, but at present the licence (as I read it) does not permit redistribution of the binaries you produce. Do please write to them to urge them to put the Personal Version under the GPL or similar, it's an ideal cross-platform tool, currently addressing Win32/X Motif/Mac/DOS32/embedded (pSOS, VxWorks). It supports the GNU gcc under Motif, and can be used with egcs with trivial mods (see previous postings to this list). The Personal Version is simply the full version without the ZafTable class (which is itself fairly amazing). The only problem with all this is that nobody (except Peter Coffee of PC Week, who rates it very highly) seems to have heard of it. Rather academic from my point of view - I know Zinc, I don't know MFC, and (in the UK) the bulk of jobs advertised are for MFC. Thanks, Regards, Tom. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".