Hello, Alan Williamson has kicked off a new series of articles about the Thinlet XUL toolkit published in the Thinlet World.
In the first episode titled "Tutorial One: Calculator Example" Alan writes: This is the first of a series of articles on how to use the Thinlet GUI technology. The key benefit of the Thinlet framework is the power and ease it gives for developing rich user interfaces in a very small JAR file. Only 38KB for the core Thinlet JAR file will open up a new world for your applications and applets. We'll go through each of the examples in the Thinlet distribution and explain how they operate. The examples are very good and do demonstrate the power of the framework very well. Let us first look at the Calculator example. This displays a simple addition form that takes two numbers and adds them. Nothing at all challenging with this example but it does serve to illustrate the basic concepts without too much business logic getting in the way. Lets take a look at the main building block of any Thinlet application; the XML file that describes the user interface. If you are familiar with laying out HTML table cells then you will be at home with laying out Thinlet components. In its simplest form, one row is assumed, with all the components being laid out; left to right. One word of warning; the format of the XML file is strict; the parser is not tolerant to errors and all tags must be closed. Full story @ http://thinlet.blog-city.com/read/643909.htm - Gerald ------------------- Gerald Bauer Thinlet Developers Group | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thinlet The Thinlet World | http://thinlet.blog-city.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: GNOME Foundation Hackers Unite! GUADEC: The world's #1 Open Source Desktop Event. GNOME Users and Developers European Conference, 28-30th June in Norway http://2004/guadec.org _______________________________________________ xul-announce mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xul-announce
