On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 01:20:14PM -0600, Bill Gribble was heard to remark: > On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 23:41, Linas Vepstas wrote: > > This is to announce a new tool for rapid prototyping of data-driven > > applications: DWI/DUI (Data With Interaction / Data Under the > > Interface). > > This looks interesting. I have developed something pretty similar, but > it just uses Glade directly to create the application interface. I use > special markup in the widget name field,
I thought of using markup in the name field, but for some reason I can't remember, didn't do that. I think I forgot when I got around to it. > which ties in to application > code you write in Scheme. I thought that maybe I should be using scheme, but I'm still not that good at it, and I got a boss who isn't really enamored of it, and I gotta tie to pre-existing c-based glade code. > I'm finding that it's a pretty great way to write applications. We are > using this tool to do all of the more-or-less rote code to make a GUI > interface to a database with 50 or so user-accessible tables, and to > build an asset tracking app for another client. yeah, that's the idea. dwi doesn't have that track record yet, I've only got a handful of tables going so far. > I just wish there was a way to slightly extend the GUI editor part of > Glade without rewriting it altogether. yeah, that' on my to-do list ... contact the glade folks, see what can be done. ----- dwi currently uses an xml file for the format; I thought of using guile, though ... Unfortuantely, the config file is rather verbose, and so i've started to create a graphical tool to do this. Naturally, its written in 'dwi' itself, and so I hope to bootstrap the thing. --linas -- pub 1024D/01045933 2001-02-01 Linas Vepstas (Labas!) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key fingerprint = 8305 2521 6000 0B5E 8984 3F54 64A9 9A82 0104 5933 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
