Re: [rgui-dev] RE: Backend Debouch

[Massimiliano Mirra]

On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 12:52:04AM -0700, Curt Hibbs wrote:
> One of the big advantage of the SWT approach compared to the FOX,
> wxWindows, ParaGUI... approach is that SWT uses the native widget set of
> the platform it runs on which immediately gives to the application the
> native look and feel of the platform it runs on. 

I gather that's half of what we're doing here.  Native backends have
been given higher priority than cross platform ones for exactly that
reason.

The other half, and what sets the project apart from others, is that
we're also trying to distill a set of programming practices and
patterns for GUI programming, and then build modules that let us
express those patterns with just a few lines of code, like Ruby
already lets us write ``require 'observer'; object.extend(Observable)'';
see for example the discussions on gui_manager.watch_methods,
widget.attr.bind(model.variable), variable.extend(Trigger), and so on.


Massimiliano