David Bergman wrote:
Max responded to David Turner regarding a GUI library:
I would add:
9. (really 0 in my view) It should use an extensive resource description schema or language (for widget properties, layouts and relations) that is either interpreted at run time or (though I like it less) compiled into code transparently to the user. This resource description should probably be XML-based.
I agree, and would definitely go with a XUL-like approach for any new GUI library, i.e., have the GUI defined completely in an XML file. Maybe even handling Microsoft's future XML descriptors for GUIs (XAML?)
The obvious question is what would you do with the C# code in that XAML. ;-) The natural choice for a Boost GUI library would probably be to embed Python in the XML, not C#. :-)