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[manianis]

I've downloaded the wxFormBuilder and I wished to share my opinion on this tools. I found that it will be very cute if you and the wxFormBuilder teams works together to develop the Code::Blocks IDE to obtain a real IDE tool having the power of Microsoft IDE.

[Pecan]

wxFormBuilder has its own forum at http://wxformbuilder.org/.

CodeBlocks has a developing form builder plugin called wxSmith.

[raph]

I had a look at wxFormBuilder some time ago.
Although it has a nice and easy ui, I didn't like it, because of it's design choice to let the user implement event handlers etc. by subclassing the classes wxFormBuilder creates.

[Grom]

Seems to be that they are using Borland's GUI building strategy. I really like that strategy.

[Grom]

I took a look on to that stuff... And... it looks like a mix of monkey with motorcycle. They are using similar strategy to wxDevCpp, which is going from Borland's idea. But in Borland there is one advantage: it has C++ extantions like properties and pointers on to classes methods, given after published:. gnu gcc doesn't have those features. That is why I can say that wx Developers stacked  with limited MS C++ model of GUI development.

[manianis]

wxFormBuilder has its own forum at http://wxformbuilder.org/.

CodeBlocks has a developing form builder plugin called wxSmith.

Yes thank you I know about the Url. But I'm talking about mixing the two projects into one to give a nice IDE. More powerfull than Microsoft. The power of the GPL Free Communities that they can works together and that's the nicer point of the Free Software.

[raph]

Why join them? They work perfect side by side.

[thomas]

I am actually quite happy that Code::Blocks is not as powerful as Visual Studio (which takes about 2 minutes to start on my PC, let's not even talk about how much space it hogs on the hard disk). 

[manianis]

If  VS takes that much it's because of the huge number of functionnalities  :shock: