Re: [Widex] Proposed rewording for Framework draft

    It's a lot cleaner and concise now, you really got the idea on my 
unsuccessfull GTK+ and Glade explanations! Thanks for the good input...

-- 
Rosfran Borges

ext Dave Raggett wrote:
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> On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Rosfran Lins Borges wrote:
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>>  Maybe I'm worried too much, because I had been supposing a reader of 
>> this draft that may possibly knows nothing about Glade XML schema 
>> and/or GTK+ "signals and slots" event model. I hope it is more concise 
>> now:
>>
>>  "Note: Some UI markup languages, e.g.  Glade [1], which are designed 
>> only for standalone UI architectures (e.g., doesn't have a 
>> change-propagation mechanism, defined at document level, which ensures 
>> consistency between remotelly-located user interface and model), 
>> originally cannot sends these UI events as a string of bits through 
>> the network. So, when using Widex with this kind of UI event model, 
>> the WO.Event messages MUST be able to serialize the events (e.g. GTK+ 
>> signals) emitted by its associated UI libraries, e.g. GTK+ [2]."
> 
> 
> Although I am a native English speaker, I still have difficulty
> in understanding the above. Here is my attempt to explain this
> based upon reading the web pages describing GLADE:
> 
>  Note: some UI markup languages don't make use of XML DOM events.
>  An example is Glade [1], which is a user interface builder for
>  GTK+ [2]. Glade generates XML files that describe the user
>  interface. These files are interpreted by libGlade [3] to build
>  the user interface at runtime. To use Glade and GTK+ with Widex,
>  the WO.Event messages MUST be able to  serialize the GTK+ signals
>  that act as UI events, and which are raised by the associated
>  GTK+ UI libraries.
> 
> 
> [1] http://glade.gnome.org/
> [2] http://www.gtk.org/
> [3] http://www.jamesh.id.au/software/libglade/
> 
> 
>  Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>  W3C lead for multimodal interaction
>  http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett +44 1225 866240 (or 867351)
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