I think we will have to disagree on this. Three things (that I can think of quickly), which would be difficult without a GUI;
I use quite regularly the alignment capabilities of the IDE, where I select multiple items and align right, left, bottom, middle , top & center. If I have 20 fields on a form I want to align I can't do it visually using the immediate display technique. Additionally when I am initially designing my form, the code may not be complete enough to be displayed in a browser. I will also often grab multiple items and move them around the screen, with their relative positions intact. Selecting multiple items and then modifying multiple properties for the selected items. Doing all of this manually is a waste of valuable developers time, and a step back into the dark ages. Yes having something that displays your changes in near real-time is better than nothing, but hardly a replacement for a good GUI IDE. Paul R. Stearns Advanced Consulting Enterprises, Inc. 15280 NW 79th Ct. Suite 250 Miami Lakes, Fl 33016 Voice: (305)623-0360 x107 Fax: (305)623-4588 ---------------------------------------- From: Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com.INVALID> Sent: 3/11/20 11:19 AM To: "users@flex.apache.org" <users@flex.apache.org> Subject: Re: GUI IDE need. On 3/11/20, 4:43 AM, "Olaf Krueger" wrote: Hi Paul, >If however you want to design highly usable business applications deployed to thin clients (to use an ancient phrase) you need GUI tools to be productive. Not agree. Modern JS frameworks are supporting "hot reload" (Royale not yet) which means the browser view is refreshing automatically after any code change/compilation... and depending on the framework and project, this just takes seconds or milliseconds. So, you see the results in near realtime instead of waiting for the compiler and restarting your app all the time. Hence my hope that someone will make live-editing of Royale MXML work. IMO, Any IDE DesignView equivalent that doesn't use a browser to render is going to have fidelity issues. Live-editing has the potential to be even better than hot-reload for some scenarios. Of course, I could be wrong... -Alex
