On Jan 21, 2010, at 1:34 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> I figured as much, but as a FoxPro guy the class designer is awesome.
For most people who develop desktop UIs, a WYSIWYG tool is essential;
we'll never get Dabo into general acceptance without a good one. A proper IDE
that has the concept of a 'project' is what is needed; with that, all of the
pathing issues that Jacek brings up would be moot, as the project would handle
relative pathing instead of us having to guess where files are.
Unfortunately, it's sort of a Catch-22: you need a large user base to
attract the developers to make this happen, while you can't get a large user
base until it happens. While we've gotten some external help, it's mostly been
things that are specific to that contributor's needs, and not general support
for the tool.
One of the best things about the Class Designer is that it is a great
example of what you can build with Dabo: it's a 100% Dabo app! I stuck to that
principle, and whenever I found something that was difficult to do, I improved
the underlying framework, figuring that it would make it easier for other
developers, too.
If I hadn't been without work for most of 2005, the Class Designer
would never have been developed. I would need a similar long stretch of
uninterrupted focus to create the IDE, but unfortunately (well, actually,
fortunately!) I'm much too busy with work these days to spend the time that's
needed to get something like that done.
-- Ed Leafe
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