Re: Crazy Lack of Sleep thought - Generic UI module

--- Matt Sergeant <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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?
> 

My thought was more geared to a perl based solution
(i'll be honest - its the language i'm most familiar
with). Ideally, something that you could just plug in
your desired interface type in the init sequence and
the rest of your code would be fine. Kind of an
inspiration (again, probable cause of inspiration no
sleep) was the DBI module where you have the unique
string to connect to your database (csv, postgres,
mysql, for example), but the rest of your code is
genericly handled by the module such that the only
line you need to worry about is that init. I confess,
I haven't thought this through too far - there would
be definite limitations, at least for me at first, in
getting the different pieces working similarly (for
example, a popup function acting similarly between the
different UI types).

I'll take a look at AxKit though, have to admit I
haven't looked at it at all. Thanks!

Mike


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