Re: [gnome-db] Re: dwi and libgda

[Andrew Hill <andru treshna com>]

Linas Vepstas wrote:

> Hi Andru,
>
> I guess I forgot to mention that DWI is essentially a competitor
> to bond. :-) or is that :-(  
its :(....
i thought i was the only one.
oh well.
mines proberly more buggier.

> On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 01:20:31PM +1200, Andrew Hill was heard to remark:
>  
>
> > > 4) The ultimate -- use DWI to power a web interface (using PHP???)
> > > That way, I can have both a glade and a web interface for the cost 
> > > of one.  But this idea is still out there; haven't worked on it yet.
> > >
> > >      
> > I've been wokring on this for month and a half.  I've got it so i can 
> > parse a glade
> > XML file and generate all the HTML for it dynamically and lay it out just
> > like it would look in GTK.  
> >    
>
>
> Ohh, this would be !great! I've been daydreaming about this for quite a
> while.  Is this available? a seperately installable package? part of
> bond?
The html component is, been in bond version 0.3.1 and higher.
but the web server that uses the html to make it acutally work would 
proberly be released
as a seperate commical product.

> > Working on web server now for processing. 
> > Difficult
> > bit is usercallbacks. when in gtk you make a shit load of callbacks (cross
> > dependent widgets etc), but callbacks are hugely damaging in the world 
> > of hmtl.
> >    
>
> Hmm. I'm not sure what you mean.   If I use glade to design a simple
> form, using mostly nothing but gtkentry and gtkbutton, then this should
> be fairly straightforward? Or is it that you can't tell what the submit
> button is frm glade?
yeah using just gtkentry and button is straight forward.
but i dont have any apps written in bond that are that simple, they all 
have a wide
variety of widgets. and somethng like a gtkclist, and esp a gtkdropdown make
a lot of callbacks.  Ie user changes this widget, these widgets are 
depend on it
and must change there values accordingly.  and bang you have to do 
another post,
and thats 1-5 seconds delay.  unless someoen knows some fancy arse html (non
java) way to avoid refreshing widgets with posts.

> > but yes it is all possible.  I'd suggest you use CGI instead of PHP 
> > though php is
> > very nice.
> >    
>
> Yeah, my first impulse is raw cgi, but I figured the php people would
> riot, so ... 
>
> --linas
>
>