OS hacking: Let's load GUI's at runtime from JSON

[cxboog]

Immediate thought as a guy that dislikes most GUI frameworks out there, it would be great if we don't repeat the odd disconnect between the UI and the code that most other GUI frameworks have (I'm specifically talking about registering actions in registries and such).
And I _do_ have a reason for this!
While doing so might make things seem simple from the declarative json world, it tends to make the API very unusable in the long run.

describing _just_ the UI composition in json is an awesome idea though!

[PreyMa]

Great new feature :) Having the option to move the GUI layout to a seperate file removes a lot of boilerplate clutter from the C++ in my opinion

[sammmba]

this structure reminds me of React! Nice feature

[DmitriyKubyshkin]

Coming up next is ReactNative for SerenityOS ;)

[cxboog]

15:05
Seems like _someone_ doesn't remember (cross_out "/know about") `R"()"`~

[spawnlink]

I can't recall what it's called but there was some app years ago that used a simple plain text format to describe GTK. It allowed you to create GUIs in basically any language because you could at worst wrap the app in a shell script and pipe the output of the application building the UI into this tool. I believe it also had a way to communicate events over stdout (of this tool) so that app could interact with the created UI.

Unrelated but related to GUI work... Joe Armstrong of Erlang fame had talked about his ideas of building an actor based UI framework where all widgets are actors and the hierarchy was mimicked in some fashion with the actor hierarchy as you find in Erlang. Everything concurrent and async. Sending messages to one another. A much nicer design vs the wxwidgets integration they have which is basically just an extension of the C++ interface.

[matheusc]

Nice, it looks a lot like Serenity QML.

[TheKittko]

What happened to your "bogi" computer? :)

[yeppiidev]

Andreas, I'm taking some source code in SerenityOS for my own hobby OS, but it is licensed under GPLv2. I don't know anything about licensed. Please help me

[ricknaam]

it was a bit painful to see you miss the \ in the raw string in text-to-cpp-string.sh near the end. we all have those days, cool video otherwise. keep up the good work.

[lithium]

lol so painful watching you miss that little escape slash over and over again.

[luandkg]

Great job, make a tutorial for beginners OS development please

[newtechandcoding]

JSON for storing GUI data. what? that's crazy, why not use XML?

[thegabriel]

JSON... pfft... millenials and their fads... What's wrong with good ol' XML?! KappaHD