Re: gui builder issues?

On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 07:23, Tupshin Harper wrote:
> I've been comtemplating what issues there might be in creating a gui 
> designer in XWT.
> 
> One question which I don't see an answer to, is whether there is a way 
> to enumerate all widgets loaded into the app (core widgets plus any 
> loaded from the xwar or dynamically at runtime).

We'll just autoload the widgets from certain locations.

ie xwt.widget, xwt.html, xwt.rtf(?)

Any other widgets can be imported using a dialogue.

> The followup is whether it is possible to enumerate all properties, 
> traps, etc., of those widgets.
> 
> Can anybody think of other introspections that would be useful for such 
> an app?
> 
> Also, it would be interesting to come up with a way (similar to  
> javabeans) to make widgets self-documenting.

Just a standard bit of documentation in the <doc/> node.  As to what the
standard is, well, we'll have to flesh that out.
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- Charlie

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