[Cuis-dev] DSL GUI framework

[Hilaire Fernandes]

Le 10/09/2021 à 16:28, Juan Vuletich a écrit :
> Going back not to spatial composition, but to "time composition" and, 
> more generally, to the general arquitecture of a GUI application, this 
> is something I wrote many years ago, and that is not currently 
> implemented for Cuis: 
> http://jvuletich.org/Cuis/APatternForGUIProgramming.html . 
> LightWidgets was a set of widgets I wrote for Cuis around that time. 
> It wasn't maintained and later abandoned. But it shouldn't be too hard 
> to build something like that again (or simply to rescue it from some 
> old Cuis release).

It is a nice rational. If understaod correctly you need the view (morph) 
to have a specific protocol for LightWidgets.  You can't just take an 
arbitrary morph (let's say a clock morph as in the Cuis book) and use it 
directly, you need to integrate it in view with a protocol matching 
LightWidget, right? (Rule 3)

Nevertheless, it will be tremendously helpful to rationalize the Morph 
jungle when it comes to GUI building.


> There was a cool way of doing this graphically in mTropolis 
> (https://www.wikiwand.com/en/MTropolis) an OO multimedia IDE.
>
> https://web.archive.org/web/20070909041715/http://www.cbd-hq.com/articles/2000/000501gh_mtropolis.asp 
>
>
> Might spark some ideas.. 
Interesting idea for end user design of user interface. Something that 
could be developed on top of a small core.

Hilaire

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