Re: Need a comprehensive C++ library

[Irtza Sharif <irtzas gmail com>]

> a) What is the basic String type in GTK--? Does it support unicode? Can I use
> the STL string?

gchar *string;
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-String-Utility-Functions.html

gtk uses charecter arrays as its strings as well as a special type called GString:
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-Strings.html

> b) Are there Date, Time and DateTime classes?

Under Glib please take a look at GDate:
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-Date-and-Time-Functions.html

If you are looking for date/time display widgets, I have a date display
widget that would be fairly easy to modify to include time.  you
can just take it out of my project at ioe.sourceforge.net for use in
your GPL project.

> c) Is there a nicely packed c++ library with all the elements that I used to
> have with Qt, like XML, SQL, etc?

There is libxml2 that you can use with gtk.  It supports
unicode.  I have never worked with SQL, so perhaps someone else
can help you with that.
c++ bindings for libxml: http://libxmlplusplus.sourceforge.net/
http://www.xmlsoft.org/

I hope this was helpful and on topic.

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