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Re: Alternative to Interface Builder?
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Re: Alternative to Interface Builder?


  • Subject: Re: Alternative to Interface Builder?
  • From: Chris Hanson <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 19:42:29 -0500

One thing you might want to look into is GNUstep Renaissance. It's a framework from Nicola Pero that lets you build Cocoa or GNUstep interfaces with XML files using a "layout manager" similar to that used in Java AWT & Swing.

I just wish it included a Project Builder project; I'm not going to install and set up gnustep-make just to build Renaissance. It was easy to create a Project Builder project to generate the framework, though, by looking at the makefiles.

(Layout managers like those in Renaissance combined with a rule engine like my BDRuleEngine framework and the NSScriptClassDescription stuff from Cocoa's AppleScript support make it theoretically possible to generate human interfaces from arbitrary data models that can then be tweaked as necessary just by changing rules. Sort of like what Direct to Web in WebObjects allows. If I had the time, I'd explore this possibility a whole lot further.)

-- Chris

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