From: Chad Fowler <chad@...>
Date: 2004-04-12T04:57:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Idea: Simplified GTK


On 11/4/2004, at 12:36 PM, Robert Feldt 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
>>
>> 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).
>>
> Have you checked out Rich's Guitopia? Looks similar to this. We plan 
> to use something like that as the top layer for a GUI toolkit one of 
> my students is doing.
>
>

Yes.  It's not exactly like this--better, actually.  But, it's not 
available publicly yet.  I think he calls it Utopia (Gutopia was 
apparently a name someone else attached to the same idea).

Sounds like your students work on some pretty great projects. :)

Chad