Cool! I read the whole thread and followed the chat on IRC (still on
going...). Having an all Python approach will certainly simplify things.
We need to think about doc though (beyond digging into the code) so that
contributors will a thread to pull and understand the GUI architecture.
Cheers,
- Philippe
Alec Flett wrote:
ok folks - Phillip has set me straight.. or at least, he came up with
a scheme, in python, that provides a reasonable compact
declaration-style mechanism for childblocks that isn't absurdly
verbose, and meets most of the criteria I outlined before :)
Lesson learned from today: when phillip says "but you can do that
easily in python" remember his understanding of python is much deeper
and his definition of "easily" is probably a lot different than yours!
I'm working on a revised version of his original proposal...
Alec
Phillip J. Eby wrote:
At 02:19 PM 8/10/2005 -0700, Alec Flett wrote:
from somewhere.cpia_templates import Menu, MenuItem
Menu("FileMenu", _('File'), [
Menu("NewMenu", _('New...'), [
MenuItem("NewMessageItem", _("Message"), ...),
MenuItem("NewNoteItem", _("Note"), ...),
])
]).install(parcel)
Wow. If you can explain a little more about how to do this, I'll
throw away all of my XmlForCpia work - seriously :)
do you mean that "Menu" is just a template wrapper around the Menu
class, or that we're somehow making the Menu class also implement
this template class?
i.e. is this something like, in somewhere.cpia_templates:
from osaf.framework import Blocks
Menu = template(Blocks.Menu)?
You could do it that way, although I think what you'd want is to have
a 'template' classmethod on Item that created template instances.
Then somewhere.cpia_templates would be defined more like:
Menu = Blocks.Menu.template
etc.
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