The GUI to end all GUI libraries (Let's Dream!)

[Bruce Adams]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:44:38 -0000, Bill Baxter  
<dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com> wrote:

> (with a nod to Don ;)
> No, I don't have the perfect GUI.
> I'm just throwing this out as a topic for discussion.  I've yet to find  
> a GUI that isn't tedious to use.  With 2.0 const hopefully nearing  
> completion, and the new closure support in 2.0, maybe it's a good time  
> to dream again about what the ultimate D GUI would look like.
>
> I don't have anything concrete, but I was thinking a bit about some  
> interesting GUI-ish things from Python recently and thought I'd mention  
> them here.
>
> There's a library called "Trellis" [1] that I think has an interesting  
> idea for how to maintain GUI state.
>
> The basic idea is that you define rules rather than explicit event  
> handlers, and execution of those rules is triggered by built-in  
> dependency analysis.  The analogy made on the web page is to a  
> spreadsheet.  When you use a spreadsheet you just say how the values in  
> this cell depend on all the others and then it all gets automagically  
> updated for you recursively whenever any dependency changes.
>
All you need is an updateWindow function.
Perhaps instead of D a suitably enhanced version of make is what we  
require. ;)