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Re: GUI builder recommendations?

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On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:43:53 +0000, "dp" <newsgroups@phagia.net>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>What are my options for designing/building a GUI from inside (preferably) or out outside of the eclipse IDE?

I have heard people say that Matisse inside Netbeans is pretty good. I
burned by Symantec's way back when. The problem was you could build
code, but not maintain it. Further, you could not tweak what it
produced. Finally the code it produced was totally unlike hand-done
code. It was unreadable. You had to do trust the visual 100%.
It also used proprietary classes so others could not build my code.

I have no experience with Matisse to see if they managed to avoid
those problems.

-- 
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com
Capitalism has spurred the competition that makes CPUs faster and 
faster each year, but the focus on money makes software manufacturers 
do some peculiar things like deliberately leaving bugs and deficiencies
in the software so they can soak the customers for upgrades later.
Whether software is easy to use, or never loses data, when the company
has a near monopoly, is almost irrelevant to profits, and therefore 
ignored. The manufacturer focuses on cheap gimicks like dancing paper 
clips to dazzle naive first-time buyers. The needs of existing 
experienced users are almost irrelevant. I see software rental as the 
best remedy.

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GUI builder recommendations? "dp" <newsgroups@phagia.net> - 2011-11-07 17:43 +0000
  Re: GUI builder recommendations? markspace <-@.> - 2011-11-07 21:15 -0800
  Re: GUI builder recommendations? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-09 16:12 -0800

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