Bill Baxter Wrote: [...] > I was hoping you might get some comments on this.
Bad timing, together with Walter adding the backend sources :-) > It seems to me a lot of people like the idea of XML files to configure > a gui. I'm not a big fan of XML, so hard for me to get excited on > that score. Also if I'm going to use a text-file gui description > thing, I'm probably only going to use it because some GUI tool was > able to spit it out for me automatically. If I have to write the text > file, I don't see how it's all that much of an improvement over just > writing the GUI code to begin with. Of course once you have the > load/save of GUI layouts worked out, it's just a "simple" matter of > making a GUI to create the layouts after that. You are perfectly right here. The whole concept was done with "glade" in mind. I like the idea of separating form and function. For me personally, using xemacs in XML mode is already "GUI enough" > > Other question I have is -- doesn't SWT already have something for > creating GUI layouts? > Hmm, nothing that Frank so far commented about. Ciao TomD