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[Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 09:14:43AM -0400, David Novak wrote:
> >To be honest, I've never been a big fan of dialog box layout tools.
> >Their strength is there weakness.  They promote designing quick dialog
> >box layouts that makes reuse difficult.  Take a look at the padding and
> >overall layout in KiCad's dialogs.  They are all over the map.  I prefer
> >hand coding dialogs.  It's painfully slow but encourages reuse (well
> >designed base dialog classes) and standardization (using wxSizerFlags).
> 
> I agree with Wayne. Dialog layout tools are nice to get up and
> running quickly, but the more I use them, the more they get in the
> way. On internal projects, my team ends up implementing workarounds
> for advanced features.
> 
> I've recently started trying to convince my team to code the dialogs
> by hand. In my mind, with a little planning up front, hand coding
> the dialog could be relatively quick.
> 
> David
> 

my 2 euro cents...

Moreover, avoiding those dialog box layout tools, many actually
unused but very useful, gettext commands/macros/features will become
available to programmers, easing a lot the translators efforts...


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