On Wed, 09 Jan 2002 09:39:58 +0100, Carsten Strotmann wrote:
>2) Architecture and concept: Delphi is now about one decade old, and so
>is the delphi two-way-RAD idea. Maybe the world of RAD tools is advanced
>in the last ten years. I find the concept of the "libglade" project
>http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/libglade/libglade.html) very
>interesting, having the GUI encoded in XML Language wich is parsed at
>runtime. In such a RAD Tool one don't need to re-compile after a gui
>change, and non-programmers can help building the gui, or the user can
>change the gui to suit her/his needs. I would like to see that we build
>a more modern RAD Tools with Pascal bindings (with a delphi import
>module) rather that a one-to-one Delphi clone.
Nice Idea, but I'm afraid such a concept will have the same annoying problems like
java: speed,
stability and design (pure optics).
>3) target platform/compiler: as I wrote in a previous post, I would like
>the tool to be platform and compiler independent. That includes the
>available OS/2 Pascal Compiler (gnu, virtual pascal, freepascal), but
>also other pascal-like languages like modula2, modula3 (I work with SRC
>Modula3 on OS/2), oberon, XDS and others. And if this is possible,
>bindings for other languages like ReXX are not that far away.
Would be wonderful to see something like modula live again. I only switched to
sibyl/pascal
because of the RAD and each time when struggling with nested if then else constructs I
wish
I could get my modula-2 back :-).
>4) GUI Toolkit: We should discuss if we like to use a GUI toolkit or if
>the RAD Tools uses plain OS/2 API. The use of a toolkit helps in terms
>of platform independance, but may hide some "loved" OS/2 Features. My
>opinion is to use a basic toolkit for platform independance with
>optional "OS/2 only" extensions. So the programmer can decide if he goes
>cross-plattform or if he likes to squeeze the last trick out of OS/2.
>Suggestions are WxWindows/2 (not finished), V, XPCOM (Heavyweight),
>GTK/2 (no PM GUI today).
Makes sense for me.
--
Lesh dagh yeearree vie
Carlos
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