Re: Interactive screen mockup program

["bostonlinuxandunix" <user=37@nabble.blu.org>]

 I've used glade with python to do that in the past, and it worked 
very well. I also tried it with perl before I started learning python, 
and it worked pretty well then, too, although I felt it worked 
much better with python. 

See  http://www.pygtk.org for details. It's been a few years since 
I did this, and it's probably improved a lot since then. 


On Dec 4, 2007 2:06 PM, Jerry Feldman <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> 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. 
> > 
> 
> 
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