Alex Martelli wrote: > Jérôme Laheurte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > >>Sorry for the harsh tone, I just think GUI builders are *evil*. Except >>maybe for QT Designer, which has a nice model where you implement >>callbacks by subclassing the generated classes. At least you don't have to >>look at the generated code. > > > Try Interface Builder on a Mac: it builds interfaces as _data_ files, > not "generated code". You can then use the same UI from Objective C, > Java, Python (w/PyObjC), AppleScript... interface-painters which > generate code are a really bad idea. (I'm sure Apple's IB is not the > only interface-painter which encodes the UI as a datafile, easily > interpreted at startup by a suitable library for whatever language > you're using to flesh it out -- it's such an obviously RIGHT idea!). > You're right. For example wxDesigner will produce XML, as well as writing wxWidgets calls directly in Python, Perl or C++.
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