Zinc designer

[Cliff Wells]

On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 13:53, morden wrote:
> Cliff Wells wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 13:19, morden wrote:
> >
> > >Did anyone modify Zinc designer to generate (and preferably read back)
> > >Python code instead of binary .dat files?
> >
> >
> > Isn't Zinc a proprietary product?  How would it be possible to modify
> > it?  Further, it's written in C++, not Python, so how is it related to
> > Python in any way?
> 
> There were sources back in versions 4.X and 5.0 dunno about the recent 
> version. Basically what I want is to throw away my dat file (it gets 
> corrupted once in a while and being binary there is no much use for 
> revision control), keep menus as Python code that is loaded/saved by 
> Zinc Designer.

Actually, given Windriver's target audience, it shouldn't surprise me
that source is available.  However, I'm not sure that Python would be a
good target for storing UI data.  It would seem like a lot of work to
accomplish what is basically structured data storage (and unless there
are Python bindings to the Zinc UI, I still don't see how Python figures
into it).  Sounds like a job for XML or a database.

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Cliff Wells, Software Engineer
Logiplex Corporation (www.logiplex.net)
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