From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: adding some more example to Ada GTK on wiki
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:26:35 +0100
Date: 2011-02-21T11:26:34+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1t1mghd0b5utf.vzcm0cfzpaix$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ijta0r$716$1@speranza.aioe.org
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 01:07:40 -0800, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> On 2/21/2011 12:39 AM, Rick wrote:
>> Personally, I hate code generators. All very well for creating the
>> first version, but you will pay for it if you try to modify the code.
>> Convenient they are! Software Engineers they aren't!
>
> Well, the trick is not to have to modify the code by hand, but
> use the GUI builder always to change the GUI layout.
>
> I tried both methods, and I just can't go back to coding GUI by
> hand any more. What used to take me days, I now do in 1-2 hrs.
Well, that depends on the kind of GUI you are designing. Generators might
be useful when you have a fixed layout and a very limited set of widgets
grouped in dialogs. I doubt they will give you much help with tree views,
cell renderers and text buffers. Even less if you drop dialogs.
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-20 12:28 adding some more example to Ada GTK on wiki Nasser M. Abbasi
2011-02-20 12:50 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-02-20 13:09 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-02-20 23:37 ` Rick
2011-02-21 0:24 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2011-02-21 8:39 ` Rick
2011-02-21 9:07 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2011-02-21 10:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2011-02-21 11:16 ` Simon Wright
2011-02-22 10:16 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
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