Re: [LuaCheia] IUP [was: wxWindows vs. FLTK]

["Joseph Stewart" <jstewart@...>]

> > Not to be a pain in the a**, but is anyone else interested in
> > curses/text-only UI as well? How about a HTML user interface... 
where
> > the same description could render a webpage?
> 
> Here!  Here! absolutly!
> I've seen such projects for Python I think, but they were not very 
advanced
> and seemed to lack support...
> 
> I guess the real problem is 'the least common dominator', as a 
graphic GUI,
> a text-based
> UI and a HTML UI have some very different requirements.
> And that's not because one is 'dumber' than the other. But I can do 
things
> on a webpage that are difficult or unpractical in a GUI, and if I put 
the
> page-based model into a GUI app, I end up with stupid wizards.
> 
> I very much want as many UI options available for LuaCheia, maybe 
this can
> be handled in a flexible way. Have a 'compat' layer that doesn't need 
to
> know what kind of UI it serves, and do UI specific programming if rhe 
need
> arises (Desktop-only app)

I remember years ago the GEOworks people (remember them) had some 
abstract way to specify a user interface so that mapping to a different 
widget set didn't require the code (object-oriented assembly 
language... I wouldn't want to change it, either) to change. This kind 
of approach might serve us well... any thoughts.

> -Martin
> 
> 
> 

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