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Bug 324085

Summary:	In-memory reusable UI resource
Product:	[Technology] XWT	Reporter:	Yves YANG <yves.yang>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Project Inbox <e4.xwt-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description Yves YANG

2010-08-31 09:08:08 EDT

In a real application, the same UI resource could be used several time. It is more smart to provide a mechanism to load it once and reuse it as needed to avoid the file loading and XML parsing each time. 

The solution is to create a new type to keep the parsing result. And the we can use this element to create the UI when we need it.

Comment 1 Yves YANG

2010-08-31 09:11:28 EDT

Next step,  it is possible to serialize this object (let's say binary resource) in a file, which can be loaded directly by light weight runtime without XML bundle dependency.

Comment 2 Yves YANG

2010-08-31 10:35:05 EDT

A new type IUIPattern is added to hold the in memory data after the XML parsing. Some methods are introudcued in XWT to create such object via UI resource:
   XWT.loadAsPattern(URL, ...);

Once IUIPattern is created, we can use it to create UI same as URL. 

The implementation is committed -> 20100831.

Comment 3 Yves YANG

2010-08-31 18:20:40 EDT

"Pattern" may not be a appropriate name. It is not template either. I propose Mold. I know it is not a common software term. It is the term of Art and Sculpture.