[Pipet Devel] Re: Ideas for network distributed objects

[J.W. Bizzaro]

Jean-Marc Valin wrote:
> 
> Am I getting everything wrong or could this XML representation of a GUI be
> handled by libglade? After all glade stores the GUI in XML and libglade can
> display it in an application.

You're getting pretty darn close :-)  The only difference between libglade (or
pyglade, both written by the same guy) and what we'll use, is that the *glades
specify a gtk interface.  But, since we want to have other kinds of
interfaces, we'll make something (by changing pyglade) more generic.

So, instead of a tag like this:

    <widget>
        <GtkRadioButton.../>
    </widget>

we'll have something like this:

    <parameter>
        <selection.../>
    </parameter>

which can then be 'translated' into gtk, qt, html, etc., depending on the
front-end used with VSH.

But keep in mind that this information needs to be transferred across the
Internet in our Internet-distributed VSH system.  This is part of what Brad
and I call an 'XML representation'.

Jeff
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