On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 08:43 +1000, Daniel Kasak wrote:
> Gtk isn't implementing any data model in a hurry. It's a widget toolkit,
> and knows *very* little about data. Your data model should be provided
> solely by *you*. You can build custom widgets to do validation on data
> as the user enters it
Dirk Koopman wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 09:37 +1000, Daniel Kasak wrote:
>
>> Dirk Koopman wrote:
>>
>>> For many years (about 26) I have used an "application framework" of my
>>> own devising (in various incarnations) for separating "business
>>> logic" [ugh] and data manipulation, co
Hi,
In my opinion there are two issues here
1) you want an api to bind data to a form
2) you want an api to quickly create new forms
I think glade can be used very well for issue #2, but you can just as
well write your own xml-2-gui module in no time. As other pointed out in
this discussion,
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 09:37 +1000, Daniel Kasak wrote:
> Dirk Koopman wrote:
>
> > For many years (about 26) I have used an "application framework" of my
> > own devising (in various incarnations) for separating "business
> > logic" [ugh] and data manipulation, completely, from visual
> > represen
On Jul 24, 2006, at 1:31 PM, Dirk Koopman wrote:
> Potentially we are talking 10's or 100's of different forms or screens
> here for large scale business systems.
Once upon a time, i set about creating a similar framework. We had a
bunch of small-to-medium applications that had very similar
Dirk Koopman wrote:
> For many years (about 26) I have used an "application framework" of my
> own devising (in various incarnations) for separating "business
> logic" [ugh] and data manipulation, completely, from visual
> representation on "curses" based terminals.
>
> It allows programmers to s
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 09:04 +1200, Grant McLean wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 18:31 +0100, Dirk Koopman wrote:
> > Fancy GUI widget drawing programs are not required.
> >
> > Is there such a thing out there for Gtk-Perl or do I have to go and
> > write (another) one?
> >
> > For the absence of a
On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 18:31 +0100, Dirk Koopman wrote:
> Fancy GUI widget drawing programs are not required.
>
> Is there such a thing out there for Gtk-Perl or do I have to go and
> write (another) one?
>
> For the absence of any doubt at all: glade is exactly *not* what I want
> or require. To
For many years (about 26) I have used an "application framework" of my
own devising (in various incarnations) for separating "business
logic" [ugh] and data manipulation, completely, from visual
representation on "curses" based terminals.
It allows programmers to say things like: take these data
