Hello Eric, thanks for you reply. Let me name few things because of which I don't want to use GWT designer:
1. If you hover mouse on components palette sometimes tooltip won't disapper and you have to manually press close 2. RAM usage is disaster. My Eclipse consumes with GWT Designer way more RAM then without some GWT Designer window open. 3. It hapened to me that GWT Designer did not show Widget (stack trace provided), even though code was valid (compiled well). Reparse did not help. This happened in both GWT and Swing projects (I don't know if Swing is related to GWT Designer, but I am telling that from previous experience with Window Builder Pro). 4. The sizing! GWT Designer generates widgets with literals of size (i.e. "54px", "3cm" ...) and you have to nearly always rewrite this. Noone wants weird size literals in code :( Even if I want something like that "80px" GWT designer does not provide some smart pre-set values. 5. Refreshing. If I am using development mode, GWT designer also needs to refresh it's view. This is incredibly annoying if you leave GWT- designer window open and doing just some tiny CSS improvements (of course you can switch to source, but sometimes you just forget ...) 6. Not sure about this one - but I don't like default naming policy of widgets. I don't really want to name my saveButton "btnSave" ... 7. I have plenty times experienced that Eclipse stopped responding when using GWT Designer. This is hard to prove, hard to reproduce, but trust me - it's very uncomfortable. 8. When you are using some widgets that relies on models, these models are automatically generated but contains usually null values, which is pretty useless. On the other hand, don't take me wrong. I think that this is very solid plugin for beginners or people not really experienced in design. Quick preview of widget, Morphing of widgets and even code generation is solid and there is much more. And I am happy that Google cares about developers and tries to provide them all accessible tools for development. I consider myself more productive with simply coding and no visual previews. I like my code under control and not to mess some tools with it :) I will keep an eye of next releases though. But plugin without designer would be great. Especially for somene who checkouts projects and cares about server side, not client side (i.e. tests some features with pre-made UIs). I am using latest official release. I don't usually use beta-builds. I am running Eclipse Helios on Linux Ubuntu 11.04. On Jun 16, 10:40 pm, Eric Clayberg <[email protected]> wrote: > What version of GWT Designer are you using? Have you tried the latest > version which has been described as "much quicker"? > > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit/browse_thread/threa... > > As to "buggy", it woud be helpful to know what you are referring to. > Have you submitted a bug report that we can take a look at? > > And to answer your last question, we do not plan to unbundle GWT > Designer from the GPE. Presumably, you could just use Eclipse to > uninstall that feature. > > On Jun 16, 12:26 pm, Vrto <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hello, I like Google Plugin for Eclipse, but I don't likeGWTDesigner. It's > > slow, buggy, keeps updating itself, loads terribly load > > and so on. Is there any chance of releasing google plugin > > withoutGWTDesigner? > > > Thanks! -- 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.
