One commercial product, DialogBlocks ($85 at
http://www.anthemion.co.uk/dialogblocks/), written by Julien Smart of
wxWidgets fame allows import and export of XRC files. It's also arguably
one of the best editors out there.
So if we, or other outside developers who owned DialogBlocks, used it
for developing our dialogs we would not be required to support a
proprietary format. And it might save us a bunch of time.
John
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.
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