> > We already have some functional backends, frontends, that works great, and has > > not been thrown away since 1 year. We use it during install, post install, mcc > > and so. > > But aren't generic enough. DrakX handles: - buttons - bool values (checkboxes) - ranges - entries - combo boxes (editable or not) - lists / radio boxes - tree lists - iconlist - wait messages Features: - all the entries above can be mixed - nice separation between data and displayed data (eg: choose in list of objects representing hda/hdb/... but displayed nicely with size...) - keyboard handled nicely in GTK frontend - callback on events: ok pressed => check before the dialog is hidden focus changed => * enables pre-setting things based on other entries * value checking on the fly - simple/advance toggle - shadowing of entries - tooltips - size of windows computed the best possible - perl-based Misfeatures: - display not flexible (though i don't know any of the tools we're talking about that is flexible => nice) - quite a few features are gtk only (simple/advance toggle, shadowing of entries, certain events, tooltips). - a stdio front-end exist but handle only certain entries. It would need a week-work to finish it - a http front-end could be done (mod-perl needed) - perl-based The DrakX frontend (called "interactive") could be moved out of DrakX. eg of use: <#part type="text/plain" filename="~/bin/perl/imessage" disposition=attachment> <#/part> [...] > > -provides a lot of frontends > > And you ideally have to provide a frontend by widget set. nope. The interface is completly standardised, even if it include some gtk-like niceties. The *complete* newt (and not just entries and radioboxes like bus) binding takes 241 lines. o/mga6 Mageia Installer and base platform for many utilitiesThierry Vignaud [tv]
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