| That was optional, it just turned out too many people liked to enable custom rendering. That is exactly the reason why many of us dislike MFC, its low level wrapping of Windows APIs. With OWL you could already have a kind of C# like experience, but in Windows 3.x, that is how far ahead the experience was versus MFC. This is the tragedy of C++ frameworks, the tooling could be as good as VB, Delphi, Java, .NET, but then we have a big chunk of developers that insist in pushing for low level Cisms instead. Honestly I never see much uptake on WTL, especially because dealing with ATL was already bad enough. From the outside it feels like the chain of command at Microsoft has some big issue with producing great GUI development experiences for C++ developers. When they finally nailed it, having a C++ Builder like experience, it was killed in the name of extensions by a rebel group, that nowadays is having fun writing Rust bindings for Windows APIs. |