TomD schrieb: > Bill Baxter Wrote: > [...] >> I was hoping you might get some comments on this. > > Bad timing, together with Walter adding the backend sources :-) > >> 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. > > You are perfectly right here. The whole concept was done with > "glade" in mind. I like the idea of separating form and function. > For me personally, using xemacs in XML mode is already > "GUI enough" > >> Other question I have is -- doesn't SWT already have something for >> creating GUI layouts? >> > Hmm, nothing that Frank so far commented about. > > Ciao > TomD
There was some stuff about "XSWT" going on. I don't know how it is related to the Eclipse/VEP and/or if it is alive.
