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

[Thilo Schuler]

Tim,

thanks for the link. I know the tutorials at xulplanet. There are also two 
online books on xul (mozilla-xul-book @ xul-http://sourceforge.net/projects/xul 
and http://books.mozdev.org). The latter one is 2 years old and the framework 
has changed partly!!!

I have played a little bit with XUL and I know how error-intolerant it is. An 
IDE would be a great step forward. Still, 
http://www.faser.net/mab/installation.cfm is a role model what can be done and 
with the firefox success XUL will become more popular.

As a test run I want to build a front-end for Horst's new Drugref (via XML-RPC) 
as a semester project. If it works I want to use it as output format for an 
openEHR generator based on archetypes.

Would be good to stay in contact. I like your comments on the GNUmed list.

-thilo


address@hidden schrieb am 21.02.05 01:32:56:
> 
> 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
>