On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:47 AM, TomD <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I have uploaded xwt to > http://demmer.kilu.de/Software/xwt_20090305.zip > > This is an extensible library that parses the XML description > of a GUI. It is based on DWT, the SWT port to D, and Tango. In theory, > it should run unaltered on Win32 and Linux, and one day also on OSX. > > The basic idea is to wrap all widgets into a class that implements a > configure method for each widget. During load of the XML tree, the > widget tree is built in parallel. > > I have included a couple of examples, so you get the idea. > > Feedback&bug reports welcome.
I was hoping you might get some comments on this. It seems to me a lot of people like the idea of XML files to configure a gui. I'm not a big fan of XML, so hard for me to get excited on that score. Also if I'm going to use a text-file gui description thing, I'm probably only going to use it because some GUI tool was able to spit it out for me automatically. If I have to write the text file, I don't see how it's all that much of an improvement over just writing the GUI code to begin with. Of course once you have the load/save of GUI layouts worked out, it's just a "simple" matter of making a GUI to create the layouts after that. Other question I have is -- doesn't SWT already have something for creating GUI layouts? --bb
