Re: GtkCanvas requirements?

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>]

El lun, 23-04-2007 a las 13:44 -0400, Havoc Pennington escribi�> For most Flash usage, API really is not the issue... people do it like 
> HTML, where they write the markup then add a little bit of scripting 
> (for Flash, it isn't literally markup, but what I mean is 'data not 
> code'). Unlike HTML, the data part is edited in a dedicated app rather 
> than written by hand or using templates.

And a "dedicated app" to create the drawing content is exactly the
killer feature of Flash.  That's what I want to do with "use Inkscape
and slap the SVG into the canvas; then write some simple code to
interact with it".

People in the Real World need a very simple way to do interactive
displays (be it with graphics or just text widgets).  A few years ago in
Brazil I had a gentleman ask me, "why is GTK+ and Glade so complicated?
I'm using a database that lets me write GUIs by typing

   Enter Name [____________________]

(write-your-GUI-though-ASCII-art), and it will then let me name the
field, define its type, etc.".

People *need* that level of simplicity.  Draw something, BANG - it's
there.  You just write some glue code to the rest of your app.

  Federico