Re: [wxperl-users] your wxGlade wishlist

[Eric W. <scr...@gm...>]

# from Mark Dootson
# on Saturday 17 March 2007 11:22 am:

>Eric Wilhelm wrote:
>> IS NOT SMALLTALK!  No matter what wxglade or other tool does, it
>> still has to generate a text file, which is an all-or-nothing
>> operation. Even with the "start" and "end" markers, you're left with
>> a blob of code that can't be changed in your editor.  It's a one-way
>> street, which means the workflow is perverted into something like
>> "make, then edit."  Until a gui tool can deal with *incoming*
>> changes to the code, we're not even close to solving this.
>
>Nah.
>
>Have the GUI tool generate a separate template class from which you
>inherit. Never edit the template class 'cause it just has your window
>construction stuff in it.
>Edit your derived class in whatever you like.
>
>So that's it solved.

Right, and that's what I was doing until I ran into problems.  It's not 
solved because it's still a one-way street, wxglade still generates 
code that doesn't do what I want in some cases, drops menu-items on the 
floor (requiring me to maintain a mirror of numeric ID's), etc.  If it 
were solved, I would be a happy clam, but I'm not.

--Eric
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