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GUI editor thoughts [message #588175]

Mon, 30 December 2002 18:20

Ed Burnette

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Registered: July 2009

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Most GUI editors I know about work by generating code, either one-way
(VS.Net) or two-way (WSAD). It seems to me that there are some problems with
this approach including locking the developer into one toolkit (Swing or Swt
or Windows Forms or HTML etc.), localization, and the complexity of
interpreting the generated code for two-way editing. Anybody else feel this
way?

This author of this article makes some of the same points and created a
simple library to use an XML description instead of code to create the GUI:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/11/NETGUIBliss/d efault.aspx

Here are some more references that talk about XML UI description languages:

http://www.xulplanet.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/luxor-xul
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/

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