"Peter Dimov" <pdimov@mmltd.net> wrote in message news:040801c4016a$abe26a80$1d00a8c0@pdimov2...
Hmm, it looks like you have a DOM hammer and you see a GUI nail. ;-) A
I disagree, and won't head down the path of mutual psychoanalysis ;-)
not needed. No, my RAD tool does not recreate anything (note present tense here),
Duly noted. Is it something I can look at?
when you change (the equivalent of) a label's text it just calls (the equivalent of) l->set_text.
Which means it knows about SomeInterface::set_text(). Will it handle a custom widget with a custom property just as smoothly? How much effort on part of a custom widget developer is required?
appropriate query engine, you should be able to do XPointer/XPath on a widget graph directly if you feel so inclined,
Anyway, I have tried the serialization approach and it works. I haven't tried a DOM-based graph representation (probably because I haven't grown accustomed to the DOM hammer yet), so I can't say how well it would
That won't give me a pointer to the run-time instance of a widget, would it? perform. HTML GUIs. We can argue all night what "well" is, but you have to agree it's been tried very extensively. ...Max...