Re: XML GUI, was Re: Best option for portable GUI?

["Marin David Condic" <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org>]

Well, gee, I don't know. I've never tried. :-) Maybe with the speed of
today's computers and a fast enough communication link it might actually
work O.K.

Just because a particular approach would not be amenable to *every* possible
application doesn't mean it shouldn't be tried or might not be a suitable
direction down which to go. For example: Are web pages across the internet
suitable to that sort of realtime animation? Not usually, but that doesn't
stop them from being a suitable interface for truckloads of applications. In
a situation like this you have to pick a direction and go there without
worrying about the fact that it isn't perfect for everything.

It would seem that defining and adopting some approach to doing GUIs with
Ada as a "standard" and "portable" means of user I/O would be a good thing.
If it was innovative and unique enough - providing features not commonly
seen in Windows or Linux or Mac apps, it might create a kind of "product
distinction" and an incentive to use Ada to get these extra capabilities. It
might possibly provide large amounts of developmental leverage that would
create an incentive for using Ada. People might say "I want that GUI... Oh?
I have to program in Ada to use that GUI? O.K. I guess we'll switch to that
language..." Its happened before.

MDC
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<tmoran@acm.org> wrote in message news:2lUV9.22373$Yq3.6351@sccrnsc02...
> > XML to build a GUI server.
>   Pardon my ignorance, but can you draw real-time moving images
> with XML?  For instance a picture that morphs between dog and cat
> as you drag the mouse left and right?  Or does GUI mean essentially
> text and static images?