Re: [RFC] New menu design based on MVC

[Isaac Dupree]

Bean wrote:
> Implement the menu viewer in lua. Colin's patch already make extensive
> use of lua, so perhaps we can just standardize the interface a little
> bit, and make it easier to write components using either c or lua.

and (out of order,)

> Use xml to store data. With Colin's graphic menu path, we are already
> introducing a new file format - the theme file. But the current
> representation is a little awkward, for example, to write a label, it
> uses:
>
> +vbox{ +label{ text="Hello" } +label{ text="World" } }
>
> I think it would be more natural to write it like this:
>
> <vbox>
>   <label text="Hello" />
>   <label text="World" />
> </vox>

XML is a bit complicated to parse, unfortunately, compared to the ideal 
hierarchical data format.(of-course we might choose it despite that)

If graphical menu is going to rely on Lua, why not write the data in Lua 
too?  It's designed for this sort of usage IIRC (use its table 
syntaxes), though I don't recall it well enough to give a good example

-Isaac