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Re:Guietta – Python module to create simple GUIs by m_mueller on Friday July 03, 2020 @11:06AM (#23724632)
It's been a while (I've never done autolayout and up) but I found Xcode Interface Builder to work in the fashion you describe. Probably not an accident as it descends from NeXT devtools which inspired e.g. VB (not sure about Delphi).
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Re:Guietta – Python module to create simple GUIs by allo37 on Friday July 03, 2020 @12:54PM (#23725534)
How well would these tools have worked with source control? Interface builder effectively uses XML files, but they are not meant to be edited/understood by humans. This effectively hides a layer of the "onion", but it makes it tricky to follow changes checked into VCS...
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Re:Guietta – Python module to create simple GUIs by m_mueller on Friday July 03, 2020 @01:30PM (#23725819)
Well XML is still better for that than binary, which I suspect VB was. We did have Xcode project files in git and it was ok.
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Re:Guietta – Python module to create simple GUIs by pjmlp on Friday July 03, 2020 @04:06PM (#23727024)
VB FRM files were text based.
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