From: Phlip <phlip2005@...>
Date: 2009-03-11T12:58:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Graphical User Interface development

Aldric Giacomoni wrote:

> Forgive my ignorance of the subject; I barely know Shoes, only what I've 
> heard of it. Does it allow the creation of complex GUIs ? To be honest, 
> I'm very leery of text-based GUI creation because of widget placement - 
> I have no idea where it's gonna go, how big it's gonna be.. All this 
> right now means nothing in my head..

The feedback loop for GUI painting is...

  - configure your editor to instantly display your GUI with one button
  - make a tiny tweak
  - view the GUI
  - repeat until satisfied.

That's the same cycle as drag and drop; just without the drag.

You typically also get better geometry management. An HTML table can stretch to 
fit more data because it declares relative positions, not absolute coordinates.

This is why a Google search for [ruby drag-n-drop] only returns 12,000 pages. 
That would seem to suggest only tangential interest in drag-n-drop...

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   Phlip