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My one brush with Borland C++'s GUI builder was that the developers were doing things like setting the colour of a UI component based on some state (like the ba

My one brush with Borland C++'s GUI builder was that the developers were doing things like setting the colour of a UI component based on some state (like the background colour of a text box for example), and then elsewhere in the program, checking the colour of that component to make some decision... I don't blame this on Borland. Nonetheless.. I ran.

jacquesm 10y ago
When used well Borland C++ builder was one of the most productive tools for application development on windows. One day someone will make something like it for the web and make a few billion.
- jhoechtl 10y ago
  It was called Dreamweaver
  - diamondo25 10y ago
    Oh the days of WYSIWYG HTML editors. I still find websites that have the Dreamweaver change-image-on-hover JavaScript. They still work on older browsers though...
    - i336_ 10y ago
      MM_preloadImages()
    - flukus 10y ago
      I doubt they work on mobile though, everything was in hard coded dimensions.
nobleach 10y ago
I see jQuery-Jockey code like that all the time. It's indicative of a novice programmer. I can't blame Borland for that. Just teaching someone that the view should never be the source of truth, can go a long way.