From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-04-08T03:05:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Idea: Simplified GTK

Chad Fowler wrote:
> I know you lose some flexibility (or you make it one level harder), but 
> I can't help wanting it to look like this:
> 
> def app_logic
>   main {
>     hbox {
>       vbox {
>         button("Do it") { puts "pressed btn1" }
>         button("This too") { puts "pressed btn2" }
>       }
>       vbox {
>         button("Third button") { puts "pressed btn3" }
>       }
>     }
>   }
> end

Nice and clean. Sometimes you'd need to save references to the
objects, though.

> Even if something like this (your idea) has some shortcomings, I still 
> think it's worth doing.  It will be very useful for the situations when 
> its shortcomings aren't an issue (for example, quick and dirty little 
> GUI apps).
> 
> Now that I've commented, can I see the code? ;)

Sure, I'll email it.  ;)

Hal