[Hwgui-developers] Some thoughts about future HwGUI development

[Alexander S.K. <al...@be...>]

Hello hwgui-developers,

  I want to share with you my thoughts about the most important
  directions of further HwGUI development.

  1. Designer.
  
  I plan to rewrite many parts of it to make it a really useful tool.
  a) Keeping of the controls ( widgets ) set in an external XML file
  to make it possible to use different controls sets for different
  platforms/systems and to make it easy to add new supported controls.

  b) Implementing other file format for forms description - XML based,
  possibly, UIML or XUL compilant.

  c) Writing a module for rendering this XML based form description,
  i.e. building dialogs/windows at runtime from the form description
  file.

  d) Get rid off the Borland Workshop like dialogs for control
  properties setting and implement Delphi like object inspector.

  2. HwGUI Linux version.
  
  I found it quite important and I will support anyone working in this
  direction.
  I think, that all C files and part of the prgs should be rewritten,
  but the commands and classes must be absolutely the same.
  Probably, it has a sense to make few versions - for different widget
  sets - GTK, FOX, etc.

  3. Documentation.
  
  This is a missing part in HwGUI and I found it very important to
  make a full and easy to use documentation. I will work on it and I
  ask all interested to make those parts of documentation, which are
  more close to you. This is a very useful job, because, trying to
  explain others how something works, you learn it better yourself
  and, probably, find weak or missing features.
  
  Any comments, additions are welcome.
  
Regards,
 Alexander
http://kresin.belgorod.su