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[ANN] U++ 2007.1 beta
Posted by Mirek Fidler on February 2nd, 2007


www.ultimatepp.org

U++ is the BSD licensed C++ crossplatform framework focused on
programmers productivity without
sacrificing runtime performance.

Based on strictly deterministic design it provides an alternative to
GC collected platforms,
even for bussines logic oriented problems (U++ has strong SQL
support).

U++ includes IDE with dialog and icon designers and "Assist+
+" (provides assistance for
C++ programming like pop-up list of methods on pressing '.' key).

U++ is now maintained for Win32, Linux, FreeBSD, PocketPC
(experimental). Mac OS X support
is under development.

New features of 2007.1 release:

* "Chameleon" skinning system which allows both native look&feel of U+
+ applications across
platforms AND custom skins to be designed/used. Gtk is used on X11
platforms
* Raster image infrastructure completely reworked
* New useful widgets: GridCtrl, CalendarCtrl and DateTimeCtrl
* Sql expressions are now dialect-adjusted before being executed on
particular RDBMS target
* Library moved to Upp namespace
* Experimental PocketPC support was introduced
* Library fixed to support ARM and PowerPC CPUs
* A lot of new documentation and tutorials
* New Icon designer (supports alpha channel and has tools to produce
antialiased icons)
* Features missing in X11 now implementd (Pdf export, printing, tray
icon, OpenGL)
* Many minor improvements and bug fixes