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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: adding some more example to Ada GTK on wiki
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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.

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de