On 2008-12-09, at 10:18, Mike Monkowski wrote:
"richer dialog" is probably too vague. Specifically VWR-10924 provides two things. First, it allows the current UI widgets, with new callbacks, to be used for communicating with in-world objects using chat channels. Second, it allows the current UI widgets, using the current callbacks, to be rearranged to provide custom UI panels, menus, and floaters. In the second case, the purpose of the in-world object is just to define the new UI component.
OK, you're talking about two separate use cases. I hadn't even thought of the second one, and I think it would be a lot more work than you're envisioning. The SL client XML schema seems to be heavily tied to the files, rather than having the callbacks driven from the XML directly. The extra work of creating a meta-language to define the callbacks outside that context, and managing interactions between components, is likely to scuttle the whole project.
The first use case... an improved dialog mechanism... is much more easily accomplished via HTML. The XML schema is extremely primitive and hyper-specialized, and even modifying the current UI is much more work than creating a simple HTML form.
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