[Dev] Module stylesheets

[Jamie Bullock]

On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 23:10 -0400, Sean Ferguson wrote: 
> I think we have been working on the assumption that a module inspector
> would use a prefab gui when it was available, and when not it would
> use a generated version that used a generalized description of the
> parameters,etc. An example of this would be in Logic, where you can
> either view an editor for a module using their fancy gui or just as a
> bunch of sliders with the correct range and parameter names.
> 

Sure, that's how I thought you were doing it. My suggestion really
concerns how the we store the data that describes the graphical
appearance of the 'prefab gui'. What I would like to see is for
modules-with-bespoke-guis to be stored as module collections, and for
each module collection to have a module stylesheet. The inclusion of the
stylesheet should be optional, and it should be up to a given GUI
'module host' how it handles the style data. To summarise: prefab gui
storage = module collection file (XML) + stylesheet (XSL).

I have started a Wiki page about this at:

http://www.integralive.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/lib:collections


Jamie


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