[news.eclipse.tools] Re: GUI again

["Scott Stanchfield" <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yup - I've poked around it a bit. Should be pretty easy to plug in pieces to
edit XUL (and it wouldn't require a code generator; just a persister).

I've also been looking at other specs like XMLTalk (a friend wrote it and
would love to see a UI builder), which should also plug in quite easily.

Once I have all the support fully cooked for the stuff needed by AWT/Swing
and SWT, additional UI toolkits should be very easy.

I'm planning on have a plugin to support a UI framework I've been working on
too, which gives some really clean generic separation between UI and
business logic, and would easily allow for very different types of UIs (like
supplying a Swing UI, a JSP UI, and an SWT UI on top of the same business
logic). This one will take a bit longer, but would really ensure that I'm
providing for pretty much any kind of UI builder to easily use Penumbra's
framework.

Later,
-- Scott
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"Jon Skeet" <skeet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Scott Stanchfield <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Over the past few weeks I got the stable GEF and have been working on it
> > like crazy. I've got my model where I want it, and a good separation of
> > plugins so I'll be able to easily support AWT/Swing or SWT. (Heck, my
> > approach would let one use my builder to create non-Java GUIs with the
right
> > plugin. I hadn't really throught about that until now...)
>
> Random thought here - do you know anything about XUL, the Mozilla
> project toolkit? If so, do you know whether your model would support
> that? I suspect the Mozilla folks might get interested in that :)
>
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