[gmpi] Re: Requirements

  • From: Steve Harris <S.W.Harris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:33:59 +0000

On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 02:25:06PM -0500, Angus F. Hewlett wrote:
> Depends really how far your pixmap+XML toolkit goes... having said that,
> you do create a steep discontinuity there. A developer who has built a
> complex UI with a decent pixmap/XML system will be pretty frustrated if
> they all of a sudden run in to an obstacle and have to recode as an
> out-of-process UI.

Thats a good point, but they face the same obstacle whatever the
programatic API they have to move to; unless we have some kind of
XML+pixmap mangling API that lets you manipulate the UI basics to add a
bit of extra functionality (c.f. javascript). That makes it a much more
serious undertaking.

- Steve

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