libhw

Overview

Have you ever wanted to create a web-based application, only to realize that you are just a mear C++ programmer. You then realize that you need to learn HTML, XML and Javascript. Plus you need to learn another language like Java, Perl or PHP to do anything useful. After that, you need to figure out how to install and setup Apache and Tomcat. Then you have to find all of the dependencies and thousands of libraries and JAR files. Three months later, you still have not written a line of code and finally give up.

You ask yourself, "Why can't I just write an application just like I always do for the desktop with a standard widget kit like Gtk, Motif or MFC?". Well now you can!

libhw aims to provide a simple and efficient web development widget set for C++ developers.

Goals

Cross platform support
Provide a static library with very few dependencies
Allow the user to easily create a single, stand-alone executable
Provide session management
Provide multi-user, threaded environment
Develop an intuitive, simple object oriented API
Distribute under LGPL. No restrictions for commercial use.

News

February 26, 2009

Things are coming along nicely. The tree widget and menus are working. See the flash video of the demo code included with the project.
I am using brainjar for the menus and dtree for the tree
All external resources are automatically embedded in the produced libhw.a file. This again is done to support the goal of creating a single, stand-alone executable.

February 24, 2009

Removed libhttpd from project. It is not available under the LGPL license, which is one of the goals of this project.

February 21, 2009

The basic framework is working
Many useful widgets exist
Demo application is available
Code can be checked out from subversion repository
Compiles under Windows, Linux and Solaris

Dependencies

pthreads - Here's a link to the Win32 version. Should come standard with Linux.

Documentation

Milestones

Name	Description	Date
Alpha1	Initial release with most widgets working Proof of concept	Feb 2009
Beta1	All widgets working as designed CGI only support CSS and Javascript behaviour complete	June 2009
1.0	https support Documentation complete Regression test suite	October 2009
2.0	Full AJAX support Publish quality user guide	TBD

Subversion

Checkout the latest source code from the Sourceforge subversion server:

svn co https://libhw.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/libhw/trunk

Trackers

Releases

Volunteers

Please let me know if you want to help! There is a lot of code and documentation to write and test. Get involved at the Sourceforge site.