Posted by member 45025 on 2003-06-25 19:41:52 link
Sorry, i was unclear on the first point. I meant structured to a machine as opposed to the human eye.
If the rc was read as a DOM object then it would be a simple case of the code traversing to the correct branch as opposed to manipulating text to come across the values it needs.
By a 3rd party parser i mean a dll parser so litestep rc parsing code invokes the dll parser object and then does its stuff.
Sorry again, you are right on the third point.
Last point, the format really depends on how the developer chooses to implement it. You could have <settings name='PopupTitleText'>Title</settings> or <popup><titleText>Title</titleText</popup> or ... i could go on, there are loads of different formats you could use.
At the end of the day i think i'm coming from a different pov from you.
My aim would be to expand the userbase of litestep and to do that you would need to take a lot of the aggro out of customizing the themes. This would result in very little manual editing of the rc being done and most of it being left to programs to auto generate it and manual editing would only be required for tweaking or whatever. This would also require a few people to code the GUI creators and plugin configuration tools but at the end of the day i think it would be worth it.
If the rc was read as a DOM object then it would be a simple case of the code traversing to the correct branch as opposed to manipulating text to come across the values it needs.
By a 3rd party parser i mean a dll parser so litestep rc parsing code invokes the dll parser object and then does its stuff.
Sorry again, you are right on the third point.
Last point, the format really depends on how the developer chooses to implement it. You could have <settings name='PopupTitleText'>Title</settings> or <popup><titleText>Title</titleText</popup> or ... i could go on, there are loads of different formats you could use.
At the end of the day i think i'm coming from a different pov from you.
My aim would be to expand the userbase of litestep and to do that you would need to take a lot of the aggro out of customizing the themes. This would result in very little manual editing of the rc being done and most of it being left to programs to auto generate it and manual editing would only be required for tweaking or whatever. This would also require a few people to code the GUI creators and plugin configuration tools but at the end of the day i think it would be worth it.