Re: [pclasses-devel] comments from a pclasses newbie

[Christian P. <cp...@se...>]

Hi again ;-)

s11n for pclasses would be really great! i already thought of a serialization 
layer for pclasses.

i also have some ideas for a pluggable, toolkit-independent gui 
infrastructure.


Regards,
Christian Prochnow

Am Freitag 17 Dezember 2004 23:56 schrieb stephan beal:
> 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. :)