Hello, JT Paasch has written up a blog story about Renaissance titled "Renaissance".
JT Paasch writes: I finally decided to try out Renaissance, a nice XUL for GNUStep/Cocoa. It seems pretty nice. [An ‘XUL’ is an eXtensible User interface Language; i.e. a markup language used to create an interface for an application. It’s much like HTML: with HTML you use tags to describe how a page should look in a browser, with XUL you use tags to describe how a program should look on your desktop. It’s nice because it makes creating interfaces much easier, and I think it forces the designer to think more explicitly about the visual grammar/semantics they are employing.] I found the instructions impossible to understand, but I did manage to get an example in the documentation running. Once you figure out how to load up the Renaissance framework in your application, the rest is easy: just ‘describe’ your interface with xml documents, and Renaissance will automatically build the interface when the application launches. So, for example, a window is described like this: <window /> Pretty simple, really. The markup is called ‘gsmarkup’ (for GNUStep Markup), and the dialect is very similar to Mozilla’s XUL. The hard part is getting the Renaissance framework all loaded up. As far as I can tell, you have to override the Cocoa framework’s default action of loading a NIB file, instead telling it to launch the Renaissance framework. That gets done with a delegate. So the whole thing is definitely not intuitive for the beginning Cocoa developer. But once you get it, using XUL for the interface has its benefits. Source: http://www.absconditus.com/blog/index.php?p=14 Has anyone else tried out Renaissance? What's your take? Do you prefer NIB files of XUL files? - Gerald ------------------- Gerald Bauer XUL Alliance | http://xul.sourceforge.net United XAML | http://xaml.sourceforge.net Interested in hiring Gerald Bauer? Yes, I'm available. If you know of an opportunity in Toronto or Vancouver, Canada, please contact me today. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click _______________________________________________ xul-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xul-talk
