Re: Need a comprehensive C++ library

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 07:09 -0400, Irtza Sharif wrote:
> > 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

He asked about gtkmm:
http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/glibmm-2.4/docs/reference/html/classGlib_1_1ustring.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?

Again, gtkmm:
http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/glibmm-2.4/docs/reference/html/classGlib_1_1Date.html

It's not that useful though.

> 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?

Again, C++:
http://libxmlplusplus.sourceforge.net/

> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Irtza Sharif

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