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Re: The death of WIDED (was: Interactively building GUIs in IDL 5.1?) [message #12186 is a reply to message #12185]

Fri, 10 July 1998 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Darran Edmundson (dEdmundson@Bigfoot.com) writes:

> I agree fully that WIDED is a horrific piece of (legacy?) code. But
> that isn't true of interactive GUI creation tools in general.
> Programmers on the Windows and Mac platforms have enjoyed easy-to-use
> visual design tools for many years.
>
> IDL users on the other hand, while they have a nice cross-platform
> widget library, are stuck "doing it by hand". (Note, as IDL becomes
> increasingly easy to integrate with other software on the Windows
> platform via ActiveX, etc., this becomes more and more an issue of
> unix users being marginalized.)
>
> My feeling is that RSI should rewrite WIDED from the ground up and
> release a widget builder worthy of a great product - IDL 5.1.

If I were to tell you that I had a piece of software that
would allow you to build widget programs interactively
(I mean by this that you could drag and drop "widgets"
onto a palette, set properties by double clicking the
widgets, add event handler code by means of a built-in
editor, be able to recover and re-edit the IDL code it
generated, etc.), what would you be willing to pay for it?

Cheers,

David

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		The death of WIDED (was: Interactively building GUIs in IDL 5.1?) By: dEdmundson on Sat, 11 July 1998 00:00
		Re: The death of WIDED (was: Interactively building GUIs in IDL 5.1?) By: davidf on Fri, 10 July 1998 00:00
		Re: The death of WIDED (was: Interactively building GUIs in IDL 5.1?) By: Richard G. French on Sun, 12 July 1998 00:00
		Re: The death of WIDED (was: Interactively building GUIs in IDL 5.1?) By: mgs on Thu, 16 July 1998 00:00

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