RE: [boost] Re: GUI Library Proposal for a Proposal

From: Stefan Csomor (csomor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-12 16:52:04

Hi

The wx RTTI was used in the ill-fated Borland RAD-Designer, so there we, as
library developers, had to expose this information about our widgets, and we
did this using the metadata mechanisms, just adding some more properties to
the meta information about the properties...

Best,

Stefan

> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of John Torjo
> Sent: Freitag, 12. November 2004 20:43
> To: boost_at_[hidden]
> Subject: Re: [boost] Re: GUI Library Proposal for a Proposal
> 
> 
> > There were some additional requirements for this kind of runtime
> > information, as it was directed towards RAD-Tools and not for crossing
> > languages
> >
> > - Grouping of properties (e.g. all props dealing with the layout of a
> > control, dealing with the appearance etc)
> >
> > - Additional meta information whether the property should be persisted
> or
> > not (properties useful for GUI-data binding but not for persistence),
> > construction properties (after creation read-only), always read-only
> > properties, help strings etc
> >
> 
> I see these on top of reflection. That is, once the RAD-tool has the
> reflection mechanism, then it can allow the user to say:
> - this is readonly
> - this is persistable, etc.
> 
> Best,
> John
> 
> --
> John Torjo,    Contributing editor, C/C++ Users Journal
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