Re: Crazy Lack of Sleep thought - Generic UI module

On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Michael Cummings wrote:

> And yet another lurker steps out from the brush (never
> you mind what we lurkers actually do in the brush)...
>
> The posts about the HTML widget got me thinking this
> morning...did a quick search on CPAN, saw nothing,
> looked through the P5EE projects, nothing quite up to
> my thought, so here it is...if you know of a project
> that is actually doing this, let me know, please! If
> not, maybe this is something that is just right for
> p5ee? And if that's a double no, well....
>
> My thought was a simple one, so to speak, never mind
> the coding involved. A generic UI module, invoked like
> $new_something = UI::new(html), or $new_something =
> UI::new(gtk), etc (syntax not the point here, I know
> that that's bad even for pseudo code), but the idea is
> a generic UI that takes a common set of functions and
> produces at least similar results for a wide variety
> of interface types. That way you could develop an app,
> use this generic UI, and with one incoming parameter
> (html, tk, gtk, curses, what have you) you would have
> an interface that met your needs without an recoding.
> Yeah, the backend modules would be huge, rough, and
> very sticky, but the results might warrant that. And
> in my "enterprise" experiences, that would be a
> wonderful thing, the ability to display a project in a
> large variety of gui types.

You could use XWT (http://www.xwt.org) in combination with server side
XSLT (e.g. AxKit) to deliver to both HTML and GUI clients in a cross
platform manner. Is that the sort of thing you were thinking of? Or does
it have to be generated directly from perl?

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