[Pipet Devel] NetInputs and NetOutputs

[Brad Chapman]

I wrote:
>> Make
>> sense to anyone else? If so, I can start working on setting things 
up to
>> work like this. It would make a lot of sense, and would help make 
the
>> loading of Overflow xml files into Piper I'm working on now much 
easier.

Jeff wrote: 
> How so?  How are you planning on making Piper "load" Overflow XML?

Well, we need to have some kind of support for being able to save the 
state of a Piper program, and then retrieve it later, and the way I 
was planning on doing this was using the XML format that Overflow uses 
for it's '.n' files. As I mentioned, Piper can produce this format 
right now, so now I just need to learn to read it. This will also 
allow Jean-Marc to be able to re-use all his current stuff from 
Overflow, which is very important.
    I'm not really positive yet how the best way to read the format 
will be (I'll either wrap the Overflow classes that already do this, 
or just get the information from the file myself). But either way, I 
was then planning on converting this into the "build time" xml format 
(which is lots of XML files--one for each node). I just finished doing 
the stuff necessary to make it possible to load information from this 
xml format into the user interface (see the latest cvs for this), but 
this will definately change some when we add the "View" part, since 
then I can manipulate the UI directly, instead of the weird way I'm 
doing it now.
    Anyways, this is my plan. Hopefully I made some sense :-).

Brad