On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 03:52 +0100, Lord Satan wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:37:28 +0000 > David W Noon <[email protected]> wrote: > > > What you are ultimately saying is that Lazarus's form designer is easier > > to use than Qt designer. > No, I am not. I am saying that with the Qt layouts we don't achieve the look > we want and that the Qt-Designer (as a bonus) is a major PITA, too. Doing it > by hand does not fix the shortcomings of layouts and spacers and just adds > ugly code. > I am not talking about one form with some memos, buttons, etc here and there. > We have a highly dynamical GUI in our application, with lots of plugins > adding/removing their own GUI-elements at runtime or extending existing > GUI-elements. > We switched from hand coded GUI to ui-files as the old system just became > unmanageable. Once again, this is not about Qt-Designer vs Lazarus' form > designer. > Layouts are a nice and easy way for simple GUIs, but too restricted for more > complex tasks. > I would post screen shots of the problems, but I am unfortunately not allowed > to do this. > > But you did not answer my question. Do you have experience with developing > complex layouts in Qt or are you just talking about simple stuff?
By my standards they were reasonably complex. However, all the dialogues are statically populated with controls, so the layouts are for resizing and/or repositioning controls whose initial positions are known at compile time -- i.e. no dynamic plugins. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] ======================================================================= [email protected] (David W Noon) ======================================================================= _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
