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The UI designer from old-school VB the best part about it. Obviously, the language part was crap. I think that forms designer still represents a rapid UI deve
by recursive 14y ago
The UI designer from old-school VB the best part about it. Obviously, the language part was crap. I think that forms designer still represents a rapid UI development environment that many languages/environments have not reached.
- prplhaz4 14y agoProbably not a very popular opinion here on HN, but the raw productivity you can achieve in the VBA/Office world is hard to reach anywhere else.
- nobleach 14y agoThat still mostly exists in Visual Studio. I'm writing C# right now and the good old toolbox is right there on the left. Now it has even more goodies thanks to the .NET framework. I typically do more webapps than anything else, so I have gotten used to designing my own UIs from scratch. I don't mind as it helps keep things very lean... but I'd love to use something like Sencha's app designer thing. I just can't justify the cost currently.
- Peaker 14y agoI always thought Trolltech's Qt Designer was much better. Evidently, you could smell a VB product a mile away because of the awkward widget positionings in the window and the usually-not-resizable aspect. You had to write manual resize code for all window components in VB, whereas in Qt it was all automatic.