[pclasses-devel] comments from a pclasses newbie

[stephan b. <st...@s1...>]

Hi again!

Again - i'm new to pclasses, just learned about it today. After glancing 
over the Doxygen docs a bit, i'm a Happy Camper :). i've got a couple 
comments, if i may...

(Marc, please ignore the mail i just sent directly to you - this is list 
stuff, i think, so i'll repost it here...)

pclasses is DEFINATELY something i'm interested in. i'm a big fan of 
UI-neutral frameworks of this type. i've been piddling around with some 
ideas for a couple years regarding a ui-neutral "UI" toolkit, called 
"noui", which abstracts Widgets into a UI-neutral layer, relying on a 
signals/slots layer to translate changes to/from UI-toolkit wrappers. 
It looks like a combination of s11n and pclasses would provide what i 
would need to turn the noui idea into not only an abstract "non-UI" 
toolkit, but also an abstract "non-desktop" framework, like a "nokde".

i, too, have tinkered with ideas similar to your SimpleApp class, and i 
LOVE that someone (you) has put together a framework for this. My 
original intention for such a type was to support my 'eshell' framework 
(http://s11n.net/eshell/), and eventually to extend that to the "noui" 
framework. To be clear: the noui idea is all theoretical, with very 
little actual code, primarily because of my lack of a really flexible 
signals/slots implementation. i've got a sigslot lib 
(http://s11n.net/sigslot/), which i ripped off from Sourceforge, but 
it's got a couple limitations which keep me away from using it 
widespread. i don't yet know if pclasses has the same limitations (or 
others). pclasses provides the network layer, too, which is really 
cool. i'm hoping i can build an s11n-capable network layer on top of 
it. :) (http://s11n.net/, of course ;).

Anyway... thanks again to Marc for the referral to your project. As soon 
as i can compile it i will start tinkering. :)

-- 
----- st...@s1...   http://s11n.net
"...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands
of the will." -- Alan W. Watts