Re: high level application frameworkl

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Jul 24, 2006, at 1:31 PM, Dirk Koopman wrote:

> Potentially we are talking 10's or 100's of different forms or screens
> here for large scale business systems.

Once upon a time, i set about creating a similar framework.  We had a  
bunch of small-to-medium applications that had very similar  
structures, and needed very similar GUIs, almost entirely for  
configuration.  We had a set of objects that represented application  
settings; they were stored in an object that allowed you to query  
them by path, and which could load and save config files by itself.   
Another set of modules could extend these objects with methods that  
created editor widgets, and the main container knew how to arrange  
the editor widgets in boxes and notebooks.

From what you've described, you want the industrial strength version  
of that...  you describe the data structures and their interactions,  
and let the code generate the GUI, as opposed to Glade, in which you  
describe the gui and later code its interactions.

I know of Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory and Gtk2::Ex::DBI as things that  
roughly do that sort of thing, but i frankly doubt there's anything  
out there that will fit your needs off the shelf.  I'm sure there are  
plenty of people here who'd be happy to help.  :-)


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