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Thu, 16 September 2010 00:33

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Non standard GUI-Toolkits. Part 1: Introduction to Ultimate++

Review U++
Ultimate (http://www.ultimatepp.org), known as U++ and UPP, is positioned not only as a GUI-toolkit, but as a holistic infrastructure (framework) for rapid development of cross-platform applications in C++. U is distributed on a free BSD license and is free for both the public and for commercial use. Code GUI-applications written using U++ extremely laconic, and reminds code "very high" level, characteristic of scripting languages. This is achieved by the widespread use contemporary possibilities with the internal structure U++. The official site has an impressive comparison of identical programs written in the U++, Qt, wxWidgets, and Java (http://www.ultimatepp.org/www$uppweb$comparison$en-us.html). In all cases, the code U++ is much shorter and clearer, even though it looks strange.

Infrastructure U++ is designed so that, ideally, the programmer does not need third-party libraries or even the STL and Boost - everything from container and finishing work with XML and SQL, is by itself U++. This "global invention Bike� U++ like Qt. U++ includes several components:

A set of standard libraries:
- Core - strings, date and time, the library containers NTL (Analog STL with a slightly different behavior and allegedly faster), callbacks, multithreading, XML, etc.
- Draw - canvas for raster graphics.
- CtrlCore - core GUI-applications that provides a mapping of windows, transfer events, processing logical coordinates, etc.
- CtrlLib - widget library.
- RichText - complicated formatted text import / export to RTF and HTML.
- SQL - functions for working with SQL-queries and interfaces to the database SQLite3, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL, Oracle.
- Esc - Embedded interpreter specific scripting language.
- Web - work with the network and the Internet.
System used to control compilation BLITZ-build.
A complete integrated development environment TheIDE with a visual layout editor widgets.
System Documentation Topic++.
System analysis, autocompletion, and code optimization Assist++.

All these components are designed to be used individually and will not work. In addition, the organization of code in the form of "packages" in the U++ is so specific that development using U++ automatically implies the exclusive use of "native" IDE. Given the specificity TheIDE, it can be considered sufficiently serious disadvantage.

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U++ running on Linux and Windows and now make port for MacOS X. Programs written for one platform, no changes are compiled on the other.

To be continued

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