Hi Marcin, On Monday 17 November 2008 11:22, Marcin Miłkowski wrote:
> some 3 years ago, there were preliminary experiments with using XUL in > OpenOffice.org, and XUL was supposed to replace VCL, eventually. What is > the status of these plans? > > VCL makes developing UI quite a tedious task, and is not extendable > outside the core, so Java extension developers (like me) tend to use > Java Swing which looks ugly but at least is extendable. With XUL, I > could probably have more "native-looking" UI elements... The ongoing work is internally called 'Layout', and Michael Meeks had a presenatation about that on this year's OOoCon (unfortunately the slides are not uploaded yet). It is not based on XUL, but designed so that the transition from the VCL-based dialogs towards the native ones is as easy as possible & can be done in incremental steps. Regards, Kendy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
