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I'm probably just getting a bit old, but I like to layout my views manually. I've got a few helpers so I can write `view.left = otherView.right + 8` or `view.mo

by fatboy 4y ago

I'm probably just getting a bit old, but I like to layout my views manually. I've got a few helpers so I can write `view.left = otherView.right + 8` or `view.moveLeftEdge(to: margins.left` etc. I find it just so clear and easy to understand. I've not tried SwiftUI yet because my app needs to work on older devices than this allows, but it's also a solution for a problem I don't really have. It can't be as bad as AutoLayout at least.

NonNefarious 4y ago
Except that doesn't scale for different devices, and will look ridiculous on the Mac when the user resizes the window. Non-Apple programmers are probably shocked to learn that to this day there's still no graceful way to scale an Apple UI up. You can't just set "scale symmetrically" on a view. It comes down to positioning things with multiplication factors and literally trying and retrying those decimal numbers on every goddamned control/label combo. Over and over and over... Then we needed to build a cross-platform desktop app, and went with Qt and QML. I expected to dislike QML, but no; it's really nice to work with, and our app looks great. QML has been around for years, so it's disappointing that SwiftUI has turned out to be such an apparent fiasco.