Re: Development Space for GUI stuff?

Anyways the first toolkit I was wanting to do is an "action manager" that read 
in a XML descriptor to build a bunch of Actions. Something like

<action-defs>

  <action-list name="file.menu">
    <action name="new"
                displayString="New"
                mnemonic="N"
                icon="newButton.gif"
                description="Create a new File"/>
    <action name="open"
                displayString="Open"
                mnemonic="S"
                icon="openButton.gif"
                description="Open a File"/>
  </action-list>

</action-defs>

This would create a bunch of Swing Action objects. You could then turn these 
Action trees into menus (either popup or not), toolbars and other similar 
buttong lists stuff.

You would do something like

ActionManager actions = ActionManager.create( "mdeflist.xml" );
Action action = actions.get( "new" );
...

actions.wireHandler( "new", someRealHandler );

ActionUIFactory factory = ...;

factory.createToolBar( actions, "file.menu" );
factory.createMenu( actions, "file.menu" );
factory.createPopupMenu( actions, "file.menu" );

Thoughts?

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Cheers,

Peter Donald
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