[Chicago] Presentation on Boo or Declaratice programming for Windows Forms

[Atul Varma]

Sounds interesting--I'd like to hear more.  wxPython is a big pain for me
and your solution looks a lot simpler.

+1

- Atul

On 4/3/07, Feihong Hsu <hsu.feihong at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I was thinking about preparing a presentation on Boo in the context
> of Microsoft's XNA game development framework, but I haven't had time
> to look into XNA yet.  However, if people are interested, I could
> give a short introduction to Boo (Boo is a statically compiled
> language for .NET and Mono that has Python-like syntax).
>
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> In the past month I've had to do a lot of GUI development, and I
> created my own library for Windows Forms that uses a declarative
> syntax similar to the Breve template engine.  Basically, the syntax
> for a form (frame) could be written as a single expression:
>
> Form[
>     # Text box that takes up all available space in the middle:
>     TextBox(Dock=DockStyle.Fill, Name='content'),
>
>     # Button panel at the top:
>     HBox(Dock=DockStyle.Top)[
>         Button(Text='Open'),
>         Button(Text='Save'),
>     ],
>
>     # List box at the bottom:
>     ListBox(Dock=DockStyle.Bottom, Name='sections')[
>         'section 1',
>         'section 2',
>         'section 3',
>     ],
> ]
>
> The above is pure Python syntax that you could just paste into the
> interactive interpreter.  I don't know how readable that is to people
> who don't do GUI programming, but it's a heck of a lot better than
> the normal API for Windows Forms.
>
> Personally, I don't want to go into Windows Forms too much unless
> people wanted that.  I would mostly just talk about how I implemented
> the library so that people could do the same thing for other GUI
> libraries like PyGTK and wxPython.
>
> - Feihong
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