Re: Re: [Gnumed-devel] NOT pretty XUL?!?

[Tim Churches]

Tim Churches <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Thilo Schuler wrote:
> 
> > Hi Tim,
> >
> > I have been trying to approach you with this. I would like to know 
> > more about your XUL explorations and why you thought it's not pretty. 
> 
> > Maybe I have to reconsider the implementation tools.
> >
> > I am in SYD too, so we can either discuss it via email or I give you 
> a 
> > ring or even meet with you.
> >
> > Hope you didn't purposely ignore my other attemps and this is just 
> > another annoyance... ;)
> 
> Thilo,
> 
> Go ahead and assess XUL and PyXPCOM yourself. Don't allow my comments 
> to  bias you.

Thilo (and others if interested), 

Further to that, have a look atteh ttorial on XUL app development at 
http://xulplanet.com/tutorials/xulapp/ 

If you follow the tutorial carefully you should end up with a simple 
working app. If you get *anything* wrong it will fail completely and you're 
unlikely to see any debug output indicating where the problem lies. And 
there are a **lot** of files to check through looking for the error 
despite this being a trivial application.

The whole thing seems incredibly fragile and at this stage poorly documented.

Tim C