Norman Vine wrote: > Tony Peden writes: > >>Norman Vine wrote: >> >> >>>David Megginson writes: >>> >>> >>>>Olivier Grisel writes: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>So if we develop such user friendly tools, it might be a >>>>>good idea to choose only one gui style so as they get all >>>>>the same style. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>You work sounds great. I see no harm in having both Java and Python >>>>GUIs -- I'm no Python fan myself (though there are other fgfs >>>>developers who are), and Java will make life a lot easier for Mac and >>>>Windows users who probably already have Java on their systems but >>>>would run away screaming if we asked them to install Python or Perl. >>>> >>>> >>>Well perhaps but ... those that did the 'One Click' installation >>>would have a GUI they could probably 'customize' for themselves :-). >>> >>>FWIW - IMHO writing the External GUI in JAVA is tantamount to >>>writting it in C++ >>> >> >>Like there would be something wrong with writing in C++ ? >> > > No - I agree with David that the more external GUI's the better > This flexibility was in fact one of our prime reasons for implementing > the network interface. > > My point was that the beauty of having a 'scriptable' GUI was that a > user, not a developer / programmer, should be able to personalize > their GUI easily, not so sure this would be possible with a C++ GUI. > > FWIW - What I think would likely be the 'pentultimate' system is a Tool > that read the existing XML configuration files and automagically created > a GUI from what it found. This is sort of what the HTML interface to the > properties does now
Scripting languages are good stuff ... but they are still languages. > > Cheers > > Norman > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > > -- -- Tony Peden [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know Linux is great ... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. -- attributed to Linus Torvalds _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
