Introduction

Table of Contents

• Motivation
• Design goals

Motivation

This framework is targeted directly and only towards Windows development. The only other noteworthy Windows framework is MFC, which is pretty ancient and painful to use. There are of course the big cross platform frameworks, like wxWidgets and Qt. But for smaller projects, it is sometimes desirable to work on a smaller framework, with a correspondingly smaller footprint. Different tools for different tasks, so speak.

neoWidgets is designed to be that tool. It also supports C++11 heavily, so all the good stuff like move construction and lambdas are possible.

Design goals

• Modern coding style, using C++11 and STL as much as possible
• Efficiency
• Details of WINAPI should not be obscured (because I don't want to reinvent the API)
• But: The user should not have to deal with the ugly parts of the API (e.g. registering window classes)
• Provide default behaviour if the user does not specify anything else