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Re: IDL 5.2 GUI Builder Tutorial ? [message #15478]

Wed, 26 May 1999 00:00

Karl Young
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Jonas wrote:

> well, being a total newbie to widget programming (started out last sunday
> actually), I found the GUI-builder to be an easy way to get a graphic
> sceleton to start with...

Good point. I talked to a friend yesterday, Scott Clafflin, who is an
experienced IDL programmer who also found the GUI-builder useful. Scott's
situation is a lot like mine; we do quite a bit of IDL programming but only have
to design an interface every once in a while (and in my case with extreme
reluctance !). Between bouts with interface design I forget virtually everything
I "learned" so I essentially feel like I'm starting from scratch (I at least can
copy my old horrible widget code, but that just institutionalizes my sloppy
attempts to hurry up and be done with interface design). In a similar situation
Scott said that despite the fact that he could only use the GUI-builder on the
first pass, and that he had to hack a lot of the generated code, it still saved
him some time on the front end. So despite the fact that experts like David
sneer at we widget challenged weaklings, I'm now convinced that the GUI-builder
has its place.

-- KY

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		Re: IDL 5.2 GUI Builder Tutorial ? By: Karl Young on Wed, 26 May 1999 00:00
		Re: IDL 5.2 GUI Builder Tutorial ? By: davidf on Wed, 26 May 1999 00:00
		Re: IDL 5.2 GUI Builder Tutorial ? By: Jonas on Wed, 26 May 1999 00:00
		Re: IDL 5.2 GUI Builder Tutorial ? By: Karl Young on Fri, 21 May 1999 00:00
		Re: IDL 5.2 GUI Builder Tutorial ? By: davidf on Fri, 21 May 1999 00:00
		Re: IDL 5.2 GUI Builder Tutorial ? By: wbiagiot on Fri, 21 May 1999 00:00
		Re: IDL 5.2 GUI Builder Tutorial ? By: davidf on Fri, 21 May 1999 00:00

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