Re: FormLayout & Swixml Marriage

I think that I may have miscommunicated.  I do not
care about layout support per-say.  What is important
is support for extension.  

I think that Swixml has a great 1.0 feature set.  It
would be a shame to pollute it with support for third
party layouts and extension at the cost of adding
complexity to core users.  Kate hit it on the head
with her comments about modularity and extensibility. 
She seemed to be talking about something similar to
XDoclet for third party additions.

I had to make the code changes to the Swixml core
instead of making a library just to add the features I
wanted.  I was hoping of a engine refactor that does
not effect end use.  Does this seem reasonable?


--- Wolf Paulus <[email protected]> wrote:
> When Swixml started about 10 month ago, it was
> thought to become a far less
> powerful tool without the support for JFC
> Layouts.However, as it turned out,
> Swixml without Layouts requires a lot of custom Java
> code to write and so it
> was added in.
> Unfortunately, this strategy change still shows in
> the design.
> 
> With the support for Mac OS X, I consider the Swiml
> 1.0 syntax complete and
> hope to publish Swixml 1.0 (final) by the end of
> this month. Looking foward,
> I think most forum members agree that Layout-Support
> is the area that needs
> attention early on when we move ahead with Version 2
> 
> I already head email-discussions with some forum
> members and other swixml
> users. The common understanding was to promote
> 'layout' from an attribute to
> a tag. Details have not been finalized but I think I
> would like to go that
> route.
> 
> Being neither a jGoodies nor an SWT expert, I don't
> know how this would
> support Gabe, Jochen, and Brian's goals  ...
> 
> Wolf.
> 
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