Re: Easiest way to build Qt/Gtk interfaces for Ada programs

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Sat, 29 Dec 2012 02:02:33 +0100, Georg Bauhaus  
<rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de> a écrit:

> On 29.12.12 01:27, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>> It's certainly possible to create a GUI Builder that does most of the
>> busy-work but still allows one to write the rest of a application.
>
> Perhaps it is an idea to be more specific about "GUI"?
>
> For some, GUI means dialogs in windows, menus, text fields and various
> buttons, maybe table views. For others, GUI means a responsive
> drawing/symbol/model of something that is different in that it is
> *not* controlled by text input, or via buttons, because it can't, really.
> Rather, the GUI is more graphical: the user is watching/controlling
> some 2D graph, say.
>   Is designing these controls best done using what is available
> in typical GUI builders? A mature CAD program would seem a more apt GUI
> builder for this kind of controls. What does game production use?
>
> For standard views, views that need not be reinvented by each GUI
> programmer, I find a GUI builder a productive tool, because one just
> needs to fill in the blanks to exactly meet user expectations.
> It has built-in knowledge of graphic design.

I feel your comments interesting here, in the way they talk about the UI  
as a separate entity, designed separately. Designing an UI and designing  
an application with an UI, is not the same. To design an UI, a tool à‑la  
Glade is indeed useful (while not required); but it typically won't help  
as much to design an application with an UI.


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