RE: Pipes

["Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>]

You guys check out "java studio"? (i think that was what it was called)
It allows you to connect java beans together. Sounds like the same concept
as you are talking about...

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Stokes [mailto:jstok@bluedog.apana.org.au]
Sent: Friday, May 28, 1999 3:27 PM
To: Michael ROGERS
Subject: Re: Pipes 



>  Perhaps the command-line pipe is too limiting a concept - what I'm
talking
> about is a way for the user to specify different types of connections 
> between components, to assemble an application. The idea of plugging
together 
> a word processor, a spelling checker and a printer applet via CORBA is 
> fantastic, but we need an intuitive way to specify these connections.
Maybe 
> this comes down to individual solutions for each application, but some
kind 
> of standard "visual syntax" for grouping components would be useful. The
> smarter Gnome is at identifying what components do and what types of data
> they can handle, the more intuitive this can be.

In that case, I would propose some kind of "component assembler" widget,
that would allow you to drag and drop components in and out of your
application framework.  For example, you'd have a diagram of your
application's components, with a plug for "spellchecker", and you'd be able
to place there any properly registered spellchecker you had on your system.

-- 
Jason Stokes: jstok@bluedog.apana.org.au



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