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Ichthyostega 20f3252892 Upgrade: down with typename!! Yet another chainsaw massacre. One of the most obnoxious annoyances with C++ metaprogramming is the need to insert `typename` and `template` qualifiers into most definitions, to help the compiler to cope with the syntax, which is not context-free. The recent standards adds several clarifications, so that most of these qualifiers are redundant now, at least at places where it is unambiguously clear that only a type can be given. GCC already supports most of these relaxing rules (Clang unfortunately lags way behind with support of newer language features...)		2025-07-06 01:19:08 +02:00
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ctrl	clean-up: trifles	2025-06-07 23:59:57 +02:00
interact	clean-up: trifles	2025-06-07 23:59:57 +02:00
model	clean-up: trifles	2025-06-07 23:59:57 +02:00
test	Upgrade: Literal can be constexpr	2025-07-02 22:18:39 +02:00
abstract-tangible-test.cpp	Copyright: clarify and simplify the file headers	2024-11-17 23:42:55 +01:00
bus-term-test.cpp	Upgrade: switch to C++23 (see #1245 )	2025-06-19 01:52:55 +02:00
gen-node-location-query.hpp	Upgrade: down with typename!!	2025-07-06 01:19:08 +02:00
README	Global-Layer-Renaming: rearrange directories	2018-11-15 23:28:03 +01:00

README

GUI backbone tests

The tests in this subtree are a bit special: they cover the generic and
backbone internals of the Lumiera GTK GUI. They are linked against the
complete GUI-module (gui plugin), and thus may use all related ABIs.

Yet these tests are *deliberately* compiled without any GTK, GTKmm or SigC
includes. This effectively rules out the use, even indirectly, of any GTK
widgets and APIs -- forcing the covered GUI backbone entities to stay
clean and generic at API level.

This is a decision done on purpose. The concrete GUI framework technology
shall be treated as an implementation detail. There is no point in writing
tests which click buttons in the GUI -- better delegate any significant
logic or functionality to GUI agnostic components. GUI is meant to be
a presentation layer and must not develop intelligence on its own.