On 21 Aug, 2006, at 10:38, Morgen Sagen wrote:
Backstory: A long time ago I needed to work on the account
preferences dialog, and it was suggested that I use XRC files to
define the layout. Of the XRC editors I could find at the time,
wxdesigner -- although proprietary -- was the best (meaning it
crashed the least often). Since that time, most of our dialogs
have been produced using wxdesigner which stores the "source" of a
dialog's layout in some binary format and generates XRC files as
output. This hadn't been too much of a problem since I was doing
most of the dialog editing.
However: Having people need to purchase a proprietary tool to help
us out with dialogs isn't going to fly, obviously, as illustrated
by comments in this bug:
https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6471
So the time has come to stop using wxdesigner's binary format as
the "source" of our dialogs, and have the XRC files take over that
role in order to allow people to use any XRC editor they wish.
I propose we remove the .wdr files from application/dialogs/ and
rename the *_wdr.xrc files to *.xrc. Plus if anyone has experience
with any open source XRC editors out there, please reply to this
message with your review of the tool.
+1. Besides the reasons given, it will allow us to fix the incorrect
positioning of dialog buttons on the Mac.
--Grant
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