RE: [pivot] are there any tools to convert bxml to Java?

[Gilbert, Clint]

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From: Greg Brown [gk_br...@verizon.net]
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 8:54 PM
To: calathus
Cc: user@pivot.apache.org
Subject: Re: [pivot] are there any tools to convert bxml to Java?

> Also if we may really have declarative GUI design, using Scala may be more 
> attractive way. Scala would allow declaring GUI in equivalent code side as 
> BXML.

I'm not sure how this would work. Scala is conceptually more akin to Java than 
markup. Could you elaborate?


I've been moving a Pivot project of mine bit-by-bit from Java to Scala, so I 
think I know what he's getting at here.  Scala makes nice-looking, declarative 
DSLs possible.  I'm not familiar with BXML, but I'm guessing you can declare 
things like: "here's a window and here's what it contains".  A Scala DSL for 
this might look like

val window = Window {
  BoxPane { 
    new Label("here's a Label inside a BoxPane inside a Window")
 }
}

I have a very small Scala lib to allow syntax like:

val component = new Button("Hello")

button onClick {
  println("You clicked the button!")
}

and 

val container = new BoxPane

container += new Label("A label")

and 


val label = new Label("A label")
val widget = new SomeWidget

container ++ (label, widget)

etc.

It's extremely rudimentary, but if anyone's interested I can share it with the 
list.