Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Tux Paint Config - dynamically driving the UI

[Albert C. <aca...@gm...>]

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Bill Kendrick<nb...@so...> wrote:
>
> So I've (mostly) come up with a little spreadsheet that can be used
> to dynamically drive a GUI, based on the current Tux Paint Config. GUI and
> the options that Tux Paint accepts in its config file.
>
> It's a very rough draft, and my friend Doug and I were both trying to
> watch our kids at the same time, so don't expect brilliance.
> The idea is that Tux Paint will drive Tux Paint Config.
> TPC will load a config file that gets shipped with TP, so, for the most
> part, no code updates need to happen in TPC when new features are added to TP.

If you're going to do this, please use the same config
language as the Linux kernel uses.

You can have help text, sub menus, constrained values,
multiple-choice values, etc.

Multiple user interfaces are already available. This includes
a GTK GUI, a Qt GUI, some other X GUI, a curses-style GUI,
a dumb text mode GUI, and a few others.

A few other projects are already using it. You get to choose
the option prefix; the choice of "CONFIG_" is not mandated.
(it seems perfectly sensible though)