copperspice VS gtkmm

Tangentially, I just listened to an old cppcast about https://www.copperspice.com/, a QT fork with ambitions of being more c++-ey.

There was already a fork of Qt 4. It is tootling along fine: https://www.copperspice.com/

BTW, CopperSpice sounds pretty close to what you're mentioning: https://www.copperspice.com

If you already have a lot of use of Qt your might find CopperSpice to be a reasonable compromisehttps://www.copperspice.com/

exactly I'm quite happy to have my code written for me. If you don't like the moc you can use CopperSpice https://www.copperspice.com/

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CopperSpice might be worth looking at too. Coming from Qt you're probably going to like it better than wxWidgets.

So I strongly dislike Qt. It's got a predatory vision for open source enforcement where they mislead their customers with spoopy language and make it harder and harder to download. In addition, they continue to insist on an architecture that's not even actually C++ (it's got a different grammar) despite it being completely possible to architect a better version of their designs in standard C++.

See copperspice project. Originally forked to work around short coming of Meta-Object Compilation.

I've tried looking around for how to make a custom GTK widget using GTKmm4 in C++, and I am finding some examples (which, however, do not use templates), like this one, which is something that the official GTKmm documentation also mentions. The idea is that then you can use the Gtk::Builder get_widget_derived method to instantiate a custom object that inherits a standard GTK4 widget class.