I wonder if any of the emerging XUL editors out there (I always wonder why the Mozilla people NEVER came up with a decent IDE) could be tweaked to be useful.
One can easily add qxtransformer templates that transform from <xul:foo> to <qx:bar>, even complicated transformations that change the logic of tag nesting is possible. Of course, the javascript logic wouldn't work, but again static UI parts can be quickly thrown together. http://wiki.mozilla.org/XUL:IDE kc106_2005-qooxdoo schrieb: >> AFAIK, qxtransformer is very lively project. You should give it a try. >> >> > > Okay. I spent a few days studying up on qxtransformer. I now know what it > is trying to accomplish. > > >>> Any other packages you would recommend? Is there a >>> layout designer that supports qooxdoo? >>> >>> >> If you have a budget, there are Javascript GUI builders from >> Tibco and >> Smartclient, and if you like Java there is a GUI builder from >> Instantiations that works against GWT. >> >> Thomas >> >> > > Well, since I don't have the budget ( :-) ), I rolled up my sleeves and came > up with a poor man's GUI builder for qxtransformer. It turns out that the > qxml file created by qxtransformer is rather similar in structure to the > resource file created by the GUI builder in PythonCard. In fact, it is so > similar that it didn't take me long (couple of hours) to modify the code for > the PythonCard GUI builder to output in qxml format. > > Pythoncard can handle quite a number of the most common controls which is > sufficient for what I need to do. See http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/ > > Right now, my poor man's GUI builder can only create windows, and buttons - > because there is really no referenence level documentation for qxtransformer > that I can find. However, I am confident that once the documentation becomes > available, it shouldn't be a hard thing for me to complete it. > > A few hours to create an application is still too long. I can't afford the > time (I did a project where I had to come up with triple digits of rather > boring screens - I did that in a week or two with PythonCard). Hopefully, > with my poor man GUI builder, I can get that down to minutes. > > Of course, none of it is possible without the excellent work of the qooxdoo > and qxtransformer teams. > > > > -- > John Henry > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference > Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. > Use priority code J8TL2D2. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone > _______________________________________________ > qooxdoo-devel mailing list > qooxdoo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ qooxdoo-devel mailing list qooxdoo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
