On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Dekel Tsur wrote:
> Designing a XForms dialog with fdesign was always a tedious task,
> which is why there are new features with no GUI support (for example:
> per-paragraph spacing). With the GUII, the situation is worse, as the GUI work
> is needed to be repeated 3 times (or even more in the future).
>
> So, I want to suggest a new approach for doing GUII dialogs:
> The dialogs structure and logiv will be defined by in a simple text file,
> and the dialogs will be built in run-time from these files.
> An example for this approach can be seen in Kaptain
> (http://www.hszk.bme.hu/~tz124/kaptain/) which is a "universal graphical
> front-end for command line programs". See
> http://www.hszk.bme.hu/~tz124/kaptain/docs/enscript.html
> for an example.
>
> In addition to easier maintenance, it will also add new abilities like the
> ability to define new insets with text files, and the ability to load
> various latex packages and set their parameters using a GUI dialog.
>
I'm sceptical it would be simple to do this in a way that would suit all
the frontends. Remember Kaptain is for a specific GUI toolkit.
And as Lars points out they shouldn't be the same design anyway - the
environments have different ways of doing things anyway
john
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