Hello, qxtranformer is dead, unfortunately. It was just not feasable to maintain it. I actually liked writing GUIs declaratively [1]. It was much faster than doing it programmatically, mostly because you were able to get rid of those pesky temporary variables needed to declare the widgets, and assign properties to them, and add them to the parents. That allowed for a very easy copy, paste & modify workflow (handy, for example, when constructing grids [2]). But the syntax was never self-explanatory, because - for example, in the case of layouts - the qooxdoo object/widget tree does not neatly translate into a hierarchical structure that can be expressed in xml, and there were too many special cases that had to be thought of. So in the end, we reverted to plain old javascript. But still it would be nice to have some declarative way of doing things. Doesn't have to be XML, could also be YAML or even JSON.
[1] Here is an example: https://sourceforge.net/p/bibliograph/code/HEAD/tree/bibliograph/trunk/bibliograph/source/class/bibliograph/Application.xml [2] https://sourceforge.net/p/bibliograph/code/HEAD/tree/bibliograph/trunk/bibliograph/source/class/bibliograph/ui/window/PreferencesWindow.xml -- View this message in context: http://qooxdoo.678.n2.nabble.com/Does-qooxdoo-have-a-GUI-builder-tool-tp7587367p7587373.html Sent from the qooxdoo mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ qooxdoo-devel mailing list qooxdoo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
