RE: SWT History and Design Decisions (WAS: [platform-swt-dev] AWT Toolki

[Scott Stanchfield <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No no no no...

If there isn't generated code, than the value of "tweaking" has gone to nil. What are you going to tweak that you couldn't do easier in the builder itself?

Because of that, and because you claim builders can fairly go either way, I think that negates the argument for tweaking code as well... 

 

What then, is the inherent value in munging the output (requiring round tripping)?

 

-- Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: platform-swt-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:platform-swt-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Bob Foster
Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 8:48 AM
To: platform-swt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: SWT History and Design Decisions (WAS: [platform-swt-dev] AWT Toolkit using SWT (was: From Swing to SWT))

There are GUI builders that generate source code and those that don't (like yours). My feeling has always been that round-tripping is a *requirement* and if you want to generate source code then you open yourself up to having to round-trip from the source (or object) code. However, if you don't generate source code you are free to round-trip from whatever intermediate representation you have chosen. Either way satisfies the requirement. One of them (the source code path) is much harder than the other.