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Alex North writes: "For a long time, GUI builders were crap. GUI builders are still crap: they often provide a poor representation of what the rendered interfac
by gshubert17 13y ago
Alex North writes: "For a long time, GUI builders were crap. GUI builders are still crap: they often provide a poor representation of what the rendered interface will look like, are not powerful enough for developers to achieve exactly what they want, and are too complicated and laden with programming concepts for non-programmers to use them."
Beginning about 1995, Borland's Delphi (now CodeGear / Embarcadero) seemed to me to have a pretty nice IDE for making GUIs on Microsoft Windows.
Any opinions on Delphi or information on anything similar for Linux or Mac?
- Zigurd 13y agoThere is no GUI builder that enables building app-specific direct manipulation. GUI-builders really should not be called GUI builders unless you think a parade of dialog boxes is a GUI.
- narag 13y agoTry Lazarus: http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/ http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/ About "GUI builders were crap. GUI builders are still crap": that's just BS. Not usable by non-programmers? Of course. But that hand-wavy dismissal is terribly lazy. Identifying what's exactly wrong and specially how to improve is the difficult part.