On Dec 28, 2004, at 12:22 PM, Paul Rubin wrote:
Obviously, something like that could also be added - do you want to help develop Dabo? We're always looking for talented people with good ideas!
Only if you want to hire me. I mostly do volunteer development only on GPL projects. If I'm writing something that can become part of a commercial Microsoft product, I expect to be paid. But I don't mind posting snarky comments :).
Oh, geez. After months of us getting skewered for releasing Dabo under GPL, with everyone saying that they wouldn't even *look* at it for fear of 'infecting' all of their code, we change the license to the MIT license, and now the complaint is that Microsoft is going to sell the code!
Ever get that feeling that you can't win? ;-)
I hope Dabo can read the xml files Glade generates, so you have a gui builder that's already deployed.
That's definitely part of the development plan. But after looking at Glade and several other designers, our conclusion is that they all lack something: either flexibility, ease of use, or something else. Sizers were probably the item that was the most difficult thing to handle well. The best designer for sizers we found was Qt Designer. We'd like to make our designer as visually clear as that one.
Also, Dabo is not just a UI toolkit: it's a full 3-tier application framework. Our major design goal is to integrate the database connections defined into the UI designer, so that you can drag and drop fields from the tables in the connection onto the design surface, and create data-bound controls in one step.
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