Linas said...
> It's been rumoured that Anthony Joseph Seward said:
> >
> > I haven't seen anyone mention this yet so I thought I might as well do it. There
>is a G
tk+ UI builder that uses XML as it's file format. You design the UI and when you
click on '
Write source code', out pops C source from the internal XML description.
> >
> > The homepage is
> >
> > http://glade.pn.org/
> >
> > There is already Python support for loading the XML description of the UI at
>startup tim
e. No need to compile the XML file into PyGtk+ function calls.
>
> Well,
>
> maybe it would be worth a shot at trying to maintain some of the gnome
> gnucash code with this tool? I dunno, I think it might be fun, and it
> might be an easier way of allowing folks to "customize", which has been
> one of my goals with this project ...
Note that if this permits taking XML and turning that into a UI, you could
write a program (let's say, a "report generator") that generates XML and
thereby writes a UI "on the fly."
This would be a way of generating "drill-down" reports where you might have
a summary at the top level, and then, when you select items on the report,
it can "drill in" and provide a subreport providing details at the lower
level.
This sort of thing is a really big deal in commercial accounting systems...
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