GUI Design (DWT) with XML

[Frank Benoit]

TomD schrieb:
> Bill Baxter Wrote:
> [...]
>> I was hoping you might get some comments on this.
> 
> Bad timing, together with Walter adding the backend sources :-)
> 
>> It seems to me a lot of people like the idea of XML files to configure
>> a gui.  I'm not a big fan of XML, so hard for me to get excited on
>> that score.  Also if I'm going to use a text-file gui description
>> thing, I'm probably only going to use it because some GUI tool was
>> able to spit it out for me automatically.  If I have to write the text
>> file, I don't see how it's all that much of an improvement over just
>> writing the GUI code to begin with.  Of course once you have the
>> load/save of GUI layouts worked out, it's just a "simple" matter of
>> making a GUI to create the layouts after that.
> 
> You are perfectly right here. The whole concept was done with
> "glade" in mind. I like the idea of separating form and function.
> For me personally, using xemacs in XML mode is already
> "GUI enough"
> 
>> Other question I have is -- doesn't SWT already have something for
>> creating GUI layouts?
>>
> Hmm, nothing that Frank so far commented about.
> 
> Ciao
> TomD

There was some stuff about "XSWT" going on. I don't know how it is
related to the Eclipse/VEP and/or if it is alive.