[Mono-list] Building a layer beetween buisiness logic and GUI

Chris Day ChrisD@monkey.biz
Wed, 21 May 2003 08:45:07 +1000


Marc Clifton on CodeProject is doing a whole scripted/automated GUI (+
DAL, etc) here is his article on GUI creation
http://www.codeproject.com/cs/menu/AAL-4.asp he has 3 other articles as
well which describe other components.

Have a look and see what you think.

Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jmozelesky [mailto:jmozelesky@netcarrier.com]=20
> Sent: Wednesday, 21 May 2003 2:49 AM
> To: J=F6rg W=FCrzer; mono-list@ximian.com
> Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Building a layer beetween buisiness=20
> logic and GUI
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> The article I was thinking of is located at this link:=20
> http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/DynamicForms.asp
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> There is also a 2nd part.  But it seems the 3rd part was=20
> never published.
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> On Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 03:13:16 PM, J=F6rg W=FCrzer wrote:
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> > Hello mono community,
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> > I've got an existing configuration tool, which loads and saves some=20
> > xml files in the buisiness logic layer. The tool was designed under=20
> > windows/.net with an SWF GUI. Now I was porting this tool to=20
> > linux/mono. The GUI was redesigned using GTK# and Glade GUI=20
> Designer.=20
> > It worked well, so I was able to copy/paste most of the buisiness=20
> > logic. The most effort was done in adapting the buisiness=20
> logic from=20
> > SWF to GTK#. Now the tool works fine under Linux. For=20
> futher projects=20
> > I'm interested in developing a layer between the buisiness=20
> logic and=20
> > the GUI toolkit. This layer shows a constant interface to the=20
> > buisiness logic on the one side and different interfaces to the=20
> > different GUIs (SWF, GTK, QT, ...) on the other side.
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> > Now my questions:
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> > Is there any effort known at this time?
> > Is there a chance for me to do such things. I see some problems in=20
> > e.g. GUI element positioning (widget packing vs. absolute=20
> > positioning)? If this could be done, where can i find some=20
> > documentation?
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> > thanks in advance and keep going on,
> > J=F6rg W=FCrzer
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> > p.s. sorry about bad english. hope you can decrypt it.=20
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