Re: Interactive screen mockup program

["Jerry Feldman-2" <user=4@nabble.blu.org>]

 neither. I'm looking for a way that I can mock up the behavior of a 
screen, but in a more stand-alone context. If it is tied to designing a 
web interface, qt or gtk, that would be fine.  That is what I mentioned 
Bricklin's Demo. 

The problem I have is trying to do something in the product I'm working 
with where there is very limited documentation. for instance, to have a 
pulldown menu, I define an enumeration in the C++ class. I then assign 
a type value to it as well as a property value. There is a text based 
config file that ties both the property and type values to attributes 
recognized by the product. My .so can access the current value of the 
enumeration, but it cannot control it. What I want to do is to describe 
graphically what I want to do. If I were designing a web application, a 
qt (or KDE), or GTK application, or even a basic X application, I would 
have a set of widgets that I could operate with or extend. I guess I 
could do it with. But, I could describe what I want in basic text. With 
a Bricklin-style program, I can communicate with the person who is 
designing the specs who really does not know our product that well by 
saying "is this what you would like to see?", and the development 
group, in how can I get FOO to do something like this. 


 On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 12:17:14 -0500 
"Martin Owens" <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> I'm a little confused, do you want an interface designer for something 
> like Qt/Gtk or are you looking for a webpage designer? 
> 
> On 04/12/2007, Jerry Feldman <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> > Years ago I used Dan Bricklin's Demo program to mock up screens. The 
> > last time he updated it was back in 1995. 
> > 
> > Essentially, what I would like to to is to be able to mock up a screen 
> > with some intelligent drop down menus. I suppose I could do it with a 
> > web page designer.  The specific issue is with the product I'm working 
> > with. This product has a fixed format screen layout that supports 
> > features such as drop down menus. My program is written as a loadable 
> > shared library where I can operate on much of the data, but I'm very 
> > limited in dealing directly with its data structures. 
>