Re: Table Driven GUI Definition?

From	Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject	Re: Table Driven GUI Definition?
Date	2011-08-05 23:49 -0700
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4On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:53:19 -0500, Tim Daneliuk
<tundra@tundraware.com> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:

>            Windows Compatibility Services  _
>            Linux Compatibility Services    _
>            TRS-DOS Compatibility Services  _
>
	What version of TRS-DOS (pre LS-DOS (aka TRS-DOS 6)?)

	Don't answer -- rhetorical question (my TRS-80 Model III/4 is in
storage, I expect if I boot it, the head on the floppy will crack off
<G>)

> What I'm looking for is a way to describe such forms in a text
> file that can then be fed into a tool to generate the necessary
> pyGUI, Tkinter, (or whatever) code.   The idea is that it should
> be simple to generate a basic interface like this and have it
> only record the user's input.  Thereafter, the python code 
> would act on the basis of those selection without any further
> connection to the GUI.
>
	Unlikely -- you'd have to have a library that incorporated all
possible targets... Or, at least, could load the most common tool-kit
for each.

	An old book, "The Viewport Technician", did cover how to code for:
Apple II-GS, Amiga, Macintosh, Windows (3), and GEM.

	Simplest would be a curses style text interface -- but I don't know
if Windows console is compatible (another book I own, strangely bought
in the late 80s early 90s, is completely concerned with text displays
and an assumption that text background could be locked so tabbing
between fields was possible... Features I've only seen on terminal
specific code [my college Hazeltine 2000 terminals, and a library linked
to the COBOL runtime; and DEC FMS {Form Management System} on VT-100 and
later])
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Table Driven GUI Definition? Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2011-08-05 12:53 -0500
  Re: Table Driven GUI Definition? Irmen de Jong <irmen@-NOSPAM-xs4all.nl> - 2011-08-05 21:05 +0200
    Re: Table Driven GUI Definition? Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2011-08-05 15:10 -0500
      Re: Table Driven GUI Definition? Philip Semanchuk <philip@semanchuk.com> - 2011-08-05 16:42 -0400
        Re: Table Driven GUI Definition? Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2011-08-05 17:20 -0500
          Re: Table Driven GUI Definition? Philip Semanchuk <philip@semanchuk.com> - 2011-08-05 18:51 -0400
            Re: Table Driven GUI Definition? Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2011-08-05 18:57 -0500
        Re: Table Driven GUI Definition? Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2011-08-05 17:20 -0500
  Re: Table Driven GUI Definition? Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2011-08-05 13:16 -0700
  Re: Table Driven GUI Definition? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-08-05 23:49 -0700

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