On Monday 12 November 2007 08:12:13 pm Heling Yao wrote: > It surely looks nice. Could John or Larry shed some light on the > development process? Did you use the classdesigner or code the ui by > hand? I guess I'm not the only one interested in the process. And it > could be encouraging for newbies like me as well. > > Thanks, > > Heling Yao
Thanks for the interest. Larry and I coded the UI by hand. It is not hard and in fact I'd say very easy in Dabo compared to doing it in wxPython. That said, we did use ClassDesigner to create some of the supporting forms. For example creating and maintaining the invoice langauge list on the customer form uses ClassDesigner files. The real reason for hand coding was to provide special visual classes we believed were required for the app. It also allowed re-use of the class and a standard look and feel to our app. But there is nothing I'd say was hard to do. Basicly, we subclassed the dTextbox and a button. Then added code to support lookups. The best advise I'd can give newbie's is to ask questions and check the source code (Dabo eats it own dog food). I'd stay away from the appwizard at first - it does so much it is hard to follow. -- John Fabiani _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/dabo-users/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
