in pondering steve's wondrous hermes plugin, it occured to me last
night that i want to add another element to the XML DTD:
<!ELEMENT page (graphics-context?,packing-structure+)>
<!ATTLIST page
name CDATA #REQUIRED
tab-orientation (left|right|bottom|top) "top"
>
and then make the top level declaration:
<!ELEMENT interface (xml-gui-version,(page+|
(graphics-context,packing-structure+))>
The assumed default implementation for pages would be a notebook-style
thing.
I suggest this because it seems clear to me that a plugin with 50+
parameters is going to have a nightmarish time trying to represent
them all in a single window. In the case of hermes, we could have
a notebook with a tab for the oscillators, another for the filters,
etc.
Does this meet with approval ?
--p
