Personally, I agree with Miguel, that we may go up in the abstraction axis, and create a new toolkit (wrapping existing widgets/controls, when possible/viable) that could provide the backbone of a 'Microsoft XAML'-compatible UI engine. ( Search for articles/comments on the latest PDC)
XAML is nothing really new (looks like a cross of HTML+CSS and XUL), but the engine behind it opens up a whole slew of marvelous tricks: CSS-like style control (change the font at one place and dozens of controls will follow suit), unlimited recursive containment (you can do something like the tables-inside-tables common trick that HTML designers abuse, or simply construct a toolbar button where you precisely lay out where the text and the bitmap will be inside it), and so on...
But don't let me stop you...
Many Funny Bits,
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From: Chris Seaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Mono-list] GUI Library Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:09:56 +0000
I'm thinking of writing a GUI library that sits on top of both SWF and GTK#, able to use either depending on a config setting or guessing from the system running the program.
Is there already anything like this? -- Chris Seaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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