"David Bergman" <davidb@home.se> writes:
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?)
Well, I'd hope there would be a user-readable/writable format that could be used as a front-end. You can go a long way in plain text: +--------+ | button | +--------+ * radio * buttons [ ] checkbox you get the idea, I hope. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com