>From: Damon Chaplin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> What about adding the following kind of editor to Glade? >> http://www.infres.enst.fr/~elc/XXL/ > >What are the main advantages of this type of editor? > >It's probably a lot of work for little benefit. I think it is pretty >easy to build interfaces in Glade already.
A few days ago I suggested the same idea and listed a couple of good advances. So, now only shortly: -No need to design the interface in advance -Better undo management and re-arranging possibilities -Better testing possibilities; multiple choises can be tested easily -Better library management (of larger structures build by user) Now Glade seems to be good enough for a small work. Preplanning seems to be a must. Often people need to use something new before they realise the advantages: so, use your imagination and build a GUI with XXL type of system in your head. Compare both building methods, change your design afterwards, make mistages, re-use parts of your GUI in other software. There are no disadvantages. If such a graph editor would be a part of Glade, you could still build the GUI the way it is build now. The graph would be build internally but you would not use it at all. Regards, Juhana _______________________________________________ Glade-devel maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/glade-devel
