Re: Re: [xul-announce] GTK# Fails The XAML Test

Being C++, it's not directly supported with MyXaml because of the 
dependence on reflection, but I've done a brief look at Qt# and wx.Net.  
Both of these have similar "problems" as GTK#--many classes do not 
support parameterless constructors and there are probably issues with 
creating object graphs due to how collections are implemented.

It's interesting, because I was hoping that these toolkits would have 
been implemented in C# with an architecture that better supported 
generic serialization.  Certainly, a custom parser can pretty easily be 
written, but given that these toolkits are being ported to C#, why not 
do it right, and allow for generic parsing and 
serialization/deserialization algorithms?  Well, that's my 2c.

You wrote: "Many GUI APIs/platforms are being retrofitted to suddenly 
support XML marshalling/unmarshalling because of XAML and other efforts."

Got any contacts of people/groups involved in this?  I'd really like to 
see that happen, and I've even been considering the idea of creating 
some sort of a consortium or something that promotes this kind of 
xaml-ification of toolkits.  Having worked (or my customer having 
worked) with big hitters like DevExpress and Infragistics, there's a 
wide spectrum of toolkits that need to be brought up to par for 
declarative programming happiness to be achieved.

Marc

Arron Ferguson wrote:

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>Interesting read although not surprising. Many GUI APIs/platforms
>are being retrofitted to suddenly support XML
>marshalling/unmarshalling because of XAML and other efforts.
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>This one sounds like a good example of an API that needs a serious
>overhaul in order to support this type of feature.
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>Marc, have you checked out at all KDE? I would be curious to see if
>it's API would be better suited towards XAML. Or how about wxWindows?
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>Date: 08/15/2004 02:41PM
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