Pencil – an open-source GUI prototyping tool for all platforms

Re:Pencil – an open-source GUI prototyping tool for all plat... by cmrx64 on Sunday June 25, 2017 @02:12AM (#14628877)

I've been an occasional user of Pencil for 5 years (almost to the month). Really glad to see it moving away from XUL.

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Re:Pencil – an open-source GUI prototyping tool for all plat... by jploh on Monday June 26, 2017 @11:53AM (#14637721)

But they're moving to Electron which I wish packed lighter.

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Re:Pencil – an open-source GUI prototyping tool for all plat... by zmix on Sunday June 25, 2017 @04:58PM (#14632147)

> Really glad to see it moving away from XUL.

Why?

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Re:Pencil – an open-source GUI prototyping tool for all plat... by cmrx64 on Sunday June 25, 2017 @10:18PM (#14633584)

Because XUL will soon be unmaintained. It's too useful a tool to wither away and die.

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Re:Pencil – an open-source GUI prototyping tool for all plat... by PleaseHelpMe on Sunday June 25, 2017 @08:26PM (#14633054)

You may want to take a look at this http://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-changes-firefox-apis-de...

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Re:Pencil – an open-source GUI prototyping tool for all plat... by zmix on Sunday June 25, 2017 @09:55PM (#14633477)

Yes, I know. I am one of those "unhappy developers". I had hoped to find some reasoning behind OP's joy of getting rid of XUL. In my opinion XUL is what made Pencil so attractive (native widgets, that can be stuffed with behaviour), Using XUL and an add-on Pencil could have become a full fledged GUI designer, using XSLT to export to various formats.

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