RE: [Bojangles-devel] dynamic widgets

[Jonathan R. <jo...@cs...>]

Hey all,

> > FYI, it is possible for the frameset widget to be present before the
> > page widget.  And in that case, it is possible for there to be more
> > than one page widget in the same app.  ;)  Just thought I'd confuse
> > things a bit more for you.
>
> the reason i originally made it so you can start with any container widget
> was so that you can use bojangles to write just part of an
> application.  say
> most of it is already done but you needed a GUI to design a new window or
> something quickly.  bojangles away (i love using it as a verb)
> and then just
> copy the output code into your application where you want it.

Ah, ok -- that makes sense.  We also might want to get the XSLT to convert
it to centrallix structured file format then too.

> i like your ideas guys as far as having two xml defs: the one from
> centrallix, and then the one we use that handles the mapping of properties
> into something recognizable for graphical representation.
>
> we could probably even remove some of that data that i asked jon
> to put into
> the widgets.xml file in centrallix if we handle it ourselves.
> i'm thinking
> of the subelements "class" and "visible".

They might not be a bad idea to leave in there -- that kind of information
would be useful to know regardless, and might even facilitate the grouping
of the docs at some point if we get too many widgets :)

> cool.  i think i'll start working on this.
sweet. :)


Jonathan