For Java ; JavaFx seems more the future for desktop UI.. Swing and SWT gets subsumed and interact well too. Nice XML descriptor but gets fairly complex code punting for anything moderately complex UI..
But charting and the UI capabilities are significantly nicer in JavaFx overall.. On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 10:39 PM, p...@highoctane.be <p...@highoctane.be> wrote: > There has been attempts to do that and Spec (htttp://spec.st) provides a > declarative model. > > The spec (check implementors of defaultSpec for a couple samples) is > basically what a GUI builder would produce and use to deifne the UI. > > As far as I know, VisualWorks uses such a spec approach as well. > http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/main/documentation/VisualWorks/GUIDevGuide.pdf > (search for windowSpec in the text) > > Frankly, for a moderately complex UI, you need to understand what's going > on and I think a GUI builder isn't going to offer any benefit vs > development time. The best thing I've seen is Matisse in Netbeans but it > wasn't really useful for an app we wrote in Java/Swing with a lot of weird > controls and interdependent fields. This is especially true when one has > dynamic layouts to do. And that's why a webbrowser has a lot of advantages > these days (Maybe not to write CAD software but it will come). > > HTH > Phil > > > > On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Ichiseki <is...@outlook.com> wrote: > >> Hi >> For what I've read and study Smalltalk was great a RAD, it was infact >> used a >> lot in financial services for that reason. >> Now I see that most commercial versions of Smalltalk have a GUI builder, >> but >> non of the open source. >> Wouldn't have a GUI building tool be a priority? >> Perhaps this is already done? >> best >> >> Ichirt) >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://forum.world.st/GUI-construction-under-Pharo-tp4775654.html >> Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> >> >
