Re: Renaissance menus on OS X ?

[Helge Hess]

Nicola Pero wrote:
> > Currently gsmarkup files are exact descriptions of the resulting tree, 
> > but they could be templates which *create* the exact descriptions.
> Oh yes - you know I *love* this kind of stuff :-)

Me too, but the major difficulty is to transport the Web/HTML templating 
idea to an AppKit framework in a useful way. But we'll manage that ! ;-)

> > <hbox>
> > <var:foreach list="MyBundleManager.allPrefBundles" item="item">
> >   <button var:label="item.bundlePath.stringByDeletingLastPathComponent"/>
> > </var:foreach>
> > </hbox>
..
> Just to make sure - I suppose you are using 'xxx.yyy' to mean 'the result
> of [xxx valueForKey: @"yyy"]' ?  (or better, 'xxx.any.thing' to mean the
> result of '[xxx valueForKeyPath: @"any.thing"]').

In this case, yes. What is bound is actually dependend on the concrete 
"WOAssociation" subclass. At Skyrix we have an XML implementation of .wo 
files (called .wox ;-). It maps the XML namespace to a concrete 
assocation class, so you can do:

  <button var:label="item.name"/> => WOKeyPathAssociation
  <button js:label="1+3"/>        => WOJavaScriptAssocation
  <button const:label="Blah!"/>   => WOValueAssociation

Very flexible.

BTW: The difficult thing with associations is change tracking. I'll 
explain that to you at the FOSDEM, too difficult to write the problem 
down ;-)

Helge