On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 09:14:43AM -0400, David Novak wrote: > >To be honest, I've never been a big fan of dialog box layout tools. > >Their strength is there weakness. They promote designing quick dialog > >box layouts that makes reuse difficult. Take a look at the padding and > >overall layout in KiCad's dialogs. They are all over the map. I prefer > >hand coding dialogs. It's painfully slow but encourages reuse (well > >designed base dialog classes) and standardization (using wxSizerFlags). > > I agree with Wayne. Dialog layout tools are nice to get up and > running quickly, but the more I use them, the more they get in the > way. On internal projects, my team ends up implementing workarounds > for advanced features. > > I've recently started trying to convince my team to code the dialogs > by hand. In my mind, with a little planning up front, hand coding > the dialog could be relatively quick. > > David >
my 2 euro cents... Moreover, avoiding those dialog box layout tools, many actually unused but very useful, gettext commands/macros/features will become available to programmers, easing a lot the translators efforts... -- Marco Ciampa I know a joke about UDP, but you might not get it. +------------------------+ | GNU/Linux User #78271 | | FSFE fellow #364 | +------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
