Hi, David Hyatt - Safari, Firebird and Mozilla XUL legend - writes in his blog story titled "XAML Ramblings at 2am":
The tags and attributes in a XAML file map directly to classes, e.g., C# classes. All you have to do is make a C# class that fits into the class hierarchy somewhere (where to put it depends on whether you're making a new widget, a simple piece of styled markup like a bold tag, a drawing primitive, a layout manager, etc.). As long as you make sure it has a parameterless constructor, your object will get created at that point in the "DOM hierarchy" and have all of its fields properly initialized to the attribute values supplied in the tag. This is probably the single coolest part of XAML, the "auto-mapping" from tags to C# objects. This was a dream I had with XUL, but Mozilla never really had the underlying framework to pull it off. This feature gives you automatic extensibility and allows you to easily implement your own layout managers and widgets, something XUL has never been able to do. (XBL can be used to create composite widgets in XUL, but not to create entirely new layout primitives and widgets that do their own layout/painting). Well, David - hold your breath - the Luxor XUL toolkit sports "auto-mapping" from tags to Java objects for more than a year now. Here are some links to get started: * Luxor Java Bean Plugin Example Suite @ http://petra.sourceforge.net/bean.html * Luxor Applet Plugin Example Suite @ http://petra.sourceforge.net/applet.html * Create Your Own XUL Tags - Getting Started Guide @ http://petra.sourceforge.net/tutorial.html Any comments from the Mozilla XUL crowd? - Gerald ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ xul-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xul-talk
