On Jan 26, 2006, at 5:35 PM, Paul McNett wrote:
The best sizer-based designer I've seen is the Qt Designer. This lets you not even think about sizers until necessary.
I thought about this, and rejected it as completely backwards. I found it hard to end up with the layout I wanted: I was constantly adding the controls to a 'layout', trying to mess with things, breaking the layout, changing some more things, etc. I tried to outline the thought process I think leads to effective design with sizers in my screencasts; it wasn't an accident that I chose that topic.
One thing I do like about Qt Designer is the pre-set choices and the wizard used for each. I envision the Dabo Designer having a set of templates of forms containing the basic stuff that all forms of that type contain, so that the user doesn't have to start with a blank page and lay everything out from scratch. That would go a *long* way to making the Designer a tool nearly everyone could use.
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