Documentation for SmartWin++

2.0RC1

What is SmartWin++ ?

SmartWin.lib is a C++ GUI and SOAP library.
A Hello World (GUI) executable with buttons and check boxes takes 155 KB and have no additional DLL dependencies!
This is vital since SmartWin is a static library by default meaning less pain in versioning and upgrades of software.
The SOAP parts and the GUI parts is not in any ways dependant upon eachother and both can be used separately without using the other. This means you can use SmartSOAP e.g. in an MFC application or you can use e.g. gSOAP in a SmartWin++ application and so on.

Technologies used
• Standard 1998 C++ (STL and templates)
• Boost++
• Win32 API (Common controls)

Target operating systems
• Windows
• Windows CE
• Linux via the WineLib.

Tested Compilers:
• Microsoft Visual C++ 7.1 (2003), its Toolkit, and Microsoft Studio C++ 2005 Express (Beta)
• GCC 3.4 / MinGW or later (see Bloodshed Dev++ or Eclipse for an IDE using MinGW)

Characteristics:
• Free for open source and commercial use.
• Links with a small static library.
• Can use resource files or can do without them.
• Presents the common controls as high level C++ classes.
• Events trigger response functions in your C++ classes.
• Response functions are set at runtime via widget functions. (No message map macros.)
• Most functions use parameters from the STL such as vector<tstring>
• tstring is just std::basic_string<_TCHAR>. In other words, it is string compiled either for Unicode or Ascii.

Limitations:
• No support for ActiveX / COM / .NET
• Scope is only the GUI functions and SOAP (plus some basic networking that the SOAP parts depends upon)

Where can I find more information ?

Be sure to check out the class documentation, modules, list of member functions, and the related pages on the left and top.

The official source for information is the Web site at http://smartwinlib.org. Including a FAQ .

SmartWin++'s SourceForge site, http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartwin, has mailing lists, screenshots, CVS access, etc.

You can download the current released version which has more then 50 SmartWin++ samples.

You can interact with the developers at the forums.

You may be looking at a local documentation copy, here is a link to theWeb based class documentation .

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