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I wanted to do a mockup of a UI a few moth back. It was moderately complex, I suppose. And I was just trying to find something that would let me build out a she
by the_only_law 5y ago
I wanted to do a mockup of a UI a few moth back. It was moderately complex, I suppose. And I was just trying to find something that would let me build out a shell. I started on Linux and I found most of the UI frameworks to be quite disappointed and a bit involved for what I was wanting to do. I think I was splaying with Glade and then QT creator and realizing just how much boilerplate code I'd have to write to get things to look how I wanted.
I then ran over to Windows, because I recall having done similar things with WPF. I instantly recalled why I hated it though, as doing any custom styling on components is a miserable mess of boilerplate XML and overriding values I have little knowledge of and seem not related or tangentially related to what I was styling.
I was able to create what I wanted relatively easily with a mix of HTML and CSS though. I think something like WPF but with CSS-like styling would be nice.
- fiddlerwoaroof 5y agoLazarus is still pretty nice for putting together an app: the Cocoa port is still a bit unstable, but the app it self captures a lot of what was great about Delphi in the 90s
- Gene_Parmesan 5y agoI unabashedly love WPF but I 100% agree on the need for a CSS-like interface for styling. It's a blind spot that was forgivable ten+ years ago but nowadays there's really no excuse for it.
- native_samples 5y agoJavaFX + Scene Builder gives you that. FX CSS isn't exactly the same as HTML CSS but it's quite close. When I've used it I've felt that the limits on the styling of my app are mostly my own lack of design skills.