Version 0 of Data Driven Tk GUI Construction

Updated 2002-09-23 18:27:47

Attending the Tcl 2002 conference, I saw a number of presentations that mentioned in passing a problem that I am dealing with in my application:

Automatic (or semiautomatic) generation of Tk GUIs based on metadata descriptions.

The applications of this take several forms.

• GUI builders need to interpret user gestures into code to build an interface
• Some XML applications interpret XML to produce user interfaces for editing values

I can see where a front-end/back-end system of reading and interpreting file contents or user gestures then calling constructors to build the interface might make some sense.

Here are the questions:

• Is there such a library now?
• If there were such a library, how would you expect it to be used?
• If there were such a library, how would you expect it to be organized?

Conceivably, the generated interface might be on one system connected to a remote system.

Thoughts? Pointers to wiki pages?

David S. Cargo ([email protected])