Re:A second look at "no code" tools (2019)
by zabzonk on Sunday February 14, 2021 @06:08PM
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Speaking as a once professional Delphi programmer, I can assure you that Delphi programs have lots of textual code in them. The IDE generates empty functions for event handlers, but you have to write textual code to do the actual handling.
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Re:A second look at "no code" tools (2019)
by cosmodisk on Monday February 15, 2021 @12:55PM
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If I recall correctly, it's the same as dropping UI components in Visual Studio and then assigning methods to events.
Re:A second look at "no code" tools (2019)
by theamk on Sunday February 14, 2021 @10:38PM
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You could theoretically create a database editor without any code. Drop a database connection component, connect a datasource to it (which defines table name), create a "scrollable box" and drop a text edit for every field, drop a few buttons and give them special functions like "save" and "cancel", and you should have an approximation of Microsoft Access form, but compileable to standalone binary.
I don't think anyone ever made projects purely in GUI though, there is always a need for some custom code to be written.