From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2004-04-07T18:52:47-07:00
Subject: Re: Idea: Simplified GTK

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Gregory Millam (walker@lethalcode.net) wrote:

> Well I guess it makes sense to do it anyway - even if I wouldn't use
> it myself, it'd be trivial to add it.
>=20
> One problem with the the whole context thing came into mind, though...
>=20
> def button(label,&block)
>   b =3D Button.new
>   b.signal_attach("clicked",block)
>=20
>   if has_context(:color)
>     ...
>   end
>   if has_context(:bgcolor)
>     ...
>   end
>   if etcetcetc....... Gtk has what, dozens of configurable things?
>      fonts, and the like.
>   end
> end

That's pretty darn ugly, and it has this feeling of unmaintainability
about it.  I doubt this would be a workable solution, especially if
there are "dozens of configurable things".

Avi used a very nice solution to this problem in Seaside's HTML
renderer.  Its easier to show first, then explain, so in your code you
do:

def render_content_on(r)
  r.element_id 'bar'
  r.heading 'My Heading'

  r.css_class 'my-class'
  r.attributes['border'] =3D 1
  r.attributes['cellpadding'] =3D 2
  r.attributes['cellspacing'] =3D 1
  r.table do
    ...
  end
end

The renderer collects attributes until you create an HTML element, then
it saves the HTML element and starts up a new attribute collection.
When you're done with the document, it gets turned into an HTML
document, and set out to the client.

Since the renderer handles building the documents, you can create all
kinds of custom widgets quickly and easily by simply subclassing or
extending the renderer.  For example:

def div_named(name, content, &block)
  element_id name
  div content, &block
end

If you'd like to look at it in Ruby, you can find it implemented in
Borges here:

http://rubyforge.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/borges/lib/Borges/HTML=
/?cvsroot=3Dborges

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