On Sunday, 17 February 2013 at 21:56:26 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 11:06:40 -0800, Jacob Carlborg
<d...@me.com> wrote:
On 2013-02-17 20:00, Adam Wilson wrote:
I've been thinking for a long time to try and serialize
widgets in DWT. And then build a tool for graphically creating
GUIs. I guess that's similar to how XAML works.
It is similar yes. In WPF, XAML is specialized XML that is
deserialized at compile-time and translated into C#/VB.NET etc.
XAML code is embedded in assembly as BAML and deserialized to a
visual tree at *runtime* through Application.LoadComponent
subsequentely calling XamlReader.LoadBaml.
I think for D compile-time deserialization makes sense for two
reasons. The first is that you get more flexibility to work
around D's lack of the deep reflection capabilites of .NET.
I doubt that it's possible to implement something like a
DependencyProperty mechanism or a simple INotifyPropertyChanged
without runtime reflection.
Anyway, if you intend to set-up a team in this direction, you can
count on me.
