On Thursday 31 January 2008 6:21 pm, Ed Leafe wrote: > On Jan 31, 2008, at 8:13 PM, Paul McNett wrote: > >> Is there a way to get the ClassDesigner to save the form > >> information as Python > >> code instead of XML? > > > > Not currently, however that would be really cool to do. We'd need to > > litter the .py files with tags, most likely, to enable 2-way editing. > > It's not that easy to do. The output of the DesignerXmlConverter.py > utility works, but it's hardly elegant code. The problem is the amount > of possible complexity that needs to be handled; to do that in a > generic way that works with any possible layout is very difficult; it > would be almost impossible to reverse that process back to XML, and > any editing by the developer would certainly defeat that effort. > > Adrian, why do you want to generate Python code? > > -- Ed Leafe What prompted this is my attempts to enter Key values directly into the cdxml file. Lets just say it reconfirmed my allergy to XML. I thought how much easier it would be to edit Python code. Just for my reference why is XML necessary? I mean you can write an application in Python and have Dabo render it, so what is the purpose of the XML?
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