Paul McNett wrote:
> 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?
>
Thank's for this Paul,
this is not the first time you gave me something to think about!
And the best is, your advice often leads to a solution for me.
Regards,
Uwe
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