[Pipet Devel] Re: overflow<->loci translation and 3 basic gui objects

[J.W. Bizzaro]

Jean-Marc Valin wrote:
> 
> Well, maybe we should have more than one GUI, or at least a GUI with a couple
> "modes". There are many applications that require a different interface:
>  -a GUI equivalent to something like "ls -l | awk '{print $2}' | sed 's/aa/bb/'
> | sort -u > somewhere" (a la Loci)
>  -a system to run complex distributed tasks (a la GMS)
>  -a signal processing framework a la Matlab/Simulink/Lab View (a la Overflow)
> 
> I don't see how the same interface can handle all those correctly.

Ahhh, but this is where we use XML to define GUIs!  As I mentioned earlier,
XML documents can be arranged according to the arrangement of nodes in a
network.  Then the XML can be translated into a Gtk interface using something
like libglade.

What I haven't brought up yet is that 'windows' can switch between views.  At
one moment, a window can show a network of nodes.  The next moment, this
window can be switched to show Gtk widgets arranged as I mention above.

> I prefer workspace de document (which is too generic). I prefer Node though, a
> month ago I had never heard the word Loci/Locus (sorry, engligh is my second
> language).

Loci/locus is actually a Latin word, meaning location :-)

> I don't mind Link of Connector (link is shorter, bout that's all)...
> pipe, maybe?..

Pipe may be confused with Unix pipes, which are local.  Link is okay, and is
reminiscent of HTML links.

> As for Network... we have to be careful... I Overflow (though it's not
> implemented exactly that way), you can see "Network" as a base class and
> "subnet", "iterator" and "threadedIterator" (possibly more later) as subclasses
> of Network.

So, what are nodes a subclass of?

Jeff
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