[Pipet Devel] GST, widgets & figure building

[Alan J. Williams]

On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Humberto Ortiz Zuazaga wrote:
 > Good, now just keap repeating after me "the data is separate from the markup, 
 > the data is separate from the markup, the data is separate from the markup, 
 > ..."

for(i=1;i!=0;i++) printf("the data is separate from the markup\n");

 > Not if I can help it.
Ditto!

 > Yes, this is right. And the only widget that can do this is the rendering 
 > widget. It has to understand the data (a multiseq object) and the markup (a 
 > markup object) and be able to combine them.
Absolutely! It is also the only object to understand what actions the user
can perform on it and what things can be altered in regards to it's
presentation.

 > > How will the graphical feature be marked in the sequence XML?
 > 
 > It won't, it'll be stored in a separate markup XML (remember: "the data is 
 > separate from the markup, the data is separate from the markup, the data is 
 > separate from the markup, ...")
Separate Markup Data File or Figure Data File

 > It can ask the locid who registered as being able to render multiseq objects. 
 > It actually can be simpler than this though. I've been beating myself up 
 > trying to figure out how to get the figure builder to be able to produce a 
 > multisequence figure without duplicating the multisequence editor.
Sounds good.

 > http://www.mieterra.com/article/koffice.html
 > http://www.gnome.org/white-papers/Components/Components/
I'll have to check these out.

Sounds like I need to bone up on Bonobo, DOM2, and CORBA. If only I had a
couple extra hours each day.

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