Alex Tweedly wrote:
Using dabo.ui simply as a wx wrapper, it would be perfectly feasible to
develop an arbitrarily complex app - but you'd have to give up all the
simplicity and pleasure of using a GUI editor to create your UI controls
and layout.
Indeed, this is what I do, and it does work well. However, I do long for
the day to be able to visually lay out my designs. But it isn't a
show-stopper for me as I've gotten quite good at visualizing what it
will look like while writing the code. And most of the code writing
starts with boilerplate to avoid typing the same patterns over and over
again.
I was hoping to find an "in-between" solution that allowed the use if CD
to keep the ability to use a GUI layout editor without having to wait
until the IDE aspect was more complete. Or to put it another way -
aiming to get 80% of the simplicity with only 20% of CD.
I think that is certainly possible. Write a tool to convert a cdxml
class into a .py file (generated Python code). Say you had
TestPanel.cdxml, the tool would create TestPanel_Layout.py with comments
at the top warning you to not edit the file and to not save it to source
control.
Then, create your own .py file that is going to use the file generated
by CD converted to .py to write most of your code. You would then have
code like:
import dabo
import TestPanel_Layout.py
class TestPanel(TestPanel_Layout.TestPanel_Layout):
def afterInit(self):
dabo.ui.info("hi")
And note that you could have indeed written your afterInit from within
the CD, and in that case the afterInit in the manually-edited file would
have overridden the code in the CD version, unless you called
self.super(), which is all as you'd expect.
This could indeed give a "best of both worlds" temporary solution. And
when the CD is finally done, it wouldn't be too difficult to merge all
this custom app code back together again, if that is what is desired.
When you save the cdxml after modifying it, you'd have to also remember
to run the cdxml->py script as well (or we'd just make that automatic
from the CD and/or eventual project manager 'build' function).
Comments on this idea?
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Paul McNett
http://paulmcnett.com
http://dabodev.com
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