I hand code as well. I have three main reasons for this: 1) I used to write Swing stuff and found Swing GUI builders just didn't cut it, especially those that used intermediate XML files, largely because Swing's layout managers are difficult to represent as WYSIWYG in an IDE, organizing nested panel structures so I could see what was what was more trouble than it was worth, and I hated the way they wrote Java code. So I got used to writing GUI code by hand. 2) I found GWT to be much the same in the sense that the browsers were in control of layout, with the added spice that each browser is apt to behave slightly differently even with GWT. So hand coding enabled me to work out exactly how they worked, put me in control, enabled me to structure my GUI code as I wanted, and enabled me to find out things about how GWT worked I wouldn't have done if a GUI builder had done it for me. 3) I use Intellij IDEA for which GWT Designer is not available so, partly because of the above two reasons, there is no way I would change back to Eclipse for the sake of a GWT GUI builder no matter how good it was. In that respect I'm biased, and I would probably have test driven GWT Designer had I been an Eclipse user, and I can't really say if I would have continued to use it.
regards gregor On Oct 20, 2:16 pm, Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use GWT Designer from Instantiations. There's decent support for > swapping between hand-writing your code and using the GUI, with some > notable exceptions which I won't go into unless someone really wants > to know. > > I start with the GUI to get a shell constructed and as things get more > complicated, stick with the handwriting, only using the GUI as a quick > way to visualize what I've just written by hand. > > On Oct 20, 8:39 am, "Arthur Kalmenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I prefer hand writing the GUI because I have a lot more control over it. I > > haven't had good experience with GUI generating tools. Besides, it seems too > > .NETish.... > > > Regards, > > -- > > Arthur Kalmenson > > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 4:50 AM, Yonatan Maman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > or do you prefer 'hand writing' GUI ? > > > > -- Yonatan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
