Re: [boost] Re: GUI library - another one

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-03-03 11:41:49

Max Motovilov wrote:
>
> I would add:
>
> 9. (really 0 in my view) It should use an extensive resource
> description schema or language (for widget properties, layouts and
> relations) that is either interpreted at run time or (though I like
> it less) compiled into code transparently to the user. This resource
> description should probably be XML-based.

That a XML resource description is needed almost goes without saying, but
why interpret or compile it? The GUI library should just be able to
deserialize its objects from such an XML file (or any other archive, for
that matter).

    widget w = create_widget("description.xml");