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[Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with Simon here.  wxFormBuilder isn't perfect but it solves many of
the tedious issues.  I'd prefer to keep it.

-S

On Tue, Jul 31, 2018, 8:11 AM Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 31.07.2018 16:19, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>
> >> From Wayne's email of the 7th Feb 2017, "After the next stable
> >> release, we should not be using wxFormbuilder for new code."
>
> > This is my personal preference but I'm not the only developer who
> > creates dialogs.  I would rather have buy in from the development team
> > rather than force my will upon everyone.  Now is as good of a time as
> > any to discuss this.  We should finalize this decision by the time we
> > open up the master branch for v6 development and keep the current policy
> > for the 5.1 release.
>
> FWIW, I prefer wxFB to hand-crafted dialogs. There are so many things to
> get wrong accidentally, like forgetting to make strings translatable, or
> to register an event.
>
>    Simon
>
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