Hello Siarhei. it could be under 6h if I hadn't to learn how to destroy the objects from the form, I hadn't done this before and the docs are not so good at that point (or I didn't found the right page in the wiki ;) ). As said, I think that qooxdoo had a lot of nice functions that made such project easy, like selecting an tree element by passing its reference (which I saved in the form object).
Until I tested Tibcos Gui Builder I also thought that a GUI Builder in Javascript isn't an extrem bad Idea, but there system works really good. They even have a LOCAL file save and load function. And they based the gui on xml files that can be edited in two-way (editor->xml and xml->editor). Eclipse is a very good choose for such a Tool, I use it all day for my work (even this tool is written in eclipse). But there are also disadvantages of an external tool compared with an "original" version. If you had an qooxdoo based gui builder you could directly use external new components without any much todo, if qooxdoo had an way to mark properties to be used in gui builder and allowes special edit helpers (like an Treeview item editor, an menu item editor and so on) you could write components for qooxdoo like you do it for example for Delphi. If you do this with eclipse I think there is the problem of rendering the components (I don't now the technology of GMF), isn't that done like in Delphi4PHP with an "image" workaround? And hasn't the developer of the qooxdoo component has to write java code to allow special editors for his components? (like the said treeview item editor)? For me, as said in an older mail, it's not so important which way is choosen here because most time I won't use a gui editor :) I think that qooxdoo itself is allready better then all other libs I had tested (I think I didn't mist an importend), even the examples are the best around, and ANY Gui Builder for users who likes such would be a huge step in the right direction. Greetings, Leander Siarhei Barysiuk wrote: > Hello Leander, > > Good work! I can't believe that it have been done for 6 hours! > > In my point of view web based GUI Builder will be with very limited > functionality. > I live with this idea from day when I saw qooxdoo. And our fist step is > QxTransformer. > I think with help of this toolkit will be easier to build > full-functional GUI builder than if we > generate JavaScript code on a fly. It resolves almost all problems that > will arise if we use > JavaScript code, for example save and load program :) > > I promise that next step will be QxDesigner, GUI Builder for qooxdoo. It > will be based > on Eclipse platform and will be used GMF for rendering. After initial > release of QxTransformer > we can start discussion about this program, functionality, realization. > Any ideas and thoughts will > be very significant for all qooxdoo community. > > Best, > Siarhei Barysiuk > > Leander Hanwald wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I tested Tibco some days ago and saw this nice little GUI Builder say have. >> But has far I can could see there lib isn't better then Qooxdoo, so why >> hasn't qooxdoo such a GUI Builder? :) >> >> So I tested for myself if qooxdoo can handle it, and yes I think qooxdoo >> can: >> http://rubyweb.de:12001/qooxdoo/testGuiBuilder/testGuiBuilder.png >> >> First the good points: >> - I needed only 6h for writing it, with under 1000 lines of code. Thumb >> up for qooxdoo here, the design of the 0.7 version works really good. >> (but MY good is not near as good as the original code ;) ) >> - It is possible to add 9 different components to the form (no limit >> each), the layout components can contains other. This is done via drag >> and drop >> - It is possible to change the parent of a component in the form tree >> - Basic properties can be changed with a propertie editor (component >> must be selected on form or in the tree) >> >> Not possible: >> - Moving and resizing of the components on the form (had problems with >> the drag and drop whem I tried to allow this) >> - Reorder components >> >> - AND MOST IMPORTANT: No save and load ;D >> >> I will not finish this project, it was only a test balloon for me, but I >> will help everyone (if i can) who wants to go on with that project. >> The code (source: >> http://rubyweb.de:12001/qooxdoo/testGuiBuilder/testBuilder_source.tar.bz2) >> is very unclean, and some solutions could be nonsensical because I >> didn't now all relevant qooxdoo functions and classes. >> >> There is a demo online >> (http://rubyweb.de:12001/qooxdoo/testGuiBuilder/build/) but it didn't >> work as build, the drag and drop support seems not to be activated, any >> hints are welcome, in the source version it works here. >> >> The code was developed against the qooxdoo 0.7 trunk of today. >> >> >> >> Good night >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express >> Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take >> control of your XML. 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