Graphical (WYSIWYG) GUI-O Editor

heromed

Since I am REALLY impressed by the facilities of this app, by far the most detailed available (of this kind) on the Google Play Store (Including my own failed effort on similar lines), I am considering writing a graphical (WYSIWYG) GUI-O Editor (like the one available in QT6, specifically for GUI-O.

I mean no disrespect regarding the one available now, but a more visual way to generate the various strings for each "component" may encourage greater use of this App, which more than likely benefit all current and future users.

I am soliciting opinions for:

Is it a worthwhile effort
Will it encourage further use
Any opinions/inputs (assuming it is judged to be worth while)
If I go ahead with it, I will make it FreeWare (unless the publisher has some other idea).

kl3m3n

@heromed Hi!

No offense taken regarding the current design tool. I strongly agree that it is not very user friendly...

The initial plan was to introduce a simple designer, which would then gradually "grow" into a more capable, user friendly graphical editor.

But, maintaining the GUI-O app (and basically everything else related to GUI-O), I never got this far. It is not a simple project anyhow.

To answer your questions:

It is definitely worthwhile from GUI-O perspective as it would surely be a significantly more friendly tool to create layouts. From my point of view, I see no problem if you license the editor as a FreeWare.

I only see one problem if you go ahead with this - almost all widgets are custom (low-level paint operations), which means all the logic is implemented in the GUI-O. So in order to create an editor that will be 1:1 compatible with GUI-O, you would need to re-implement the widgets exactly... Ideally, the codebase for the widgets should be the same (e.g., shared between the GUI-O app and the editor).

I am sure you understand I cannot share the source code for this as this is one of the main features of GUI-O.

Can you share a brief overview on how would you implement the editor? So we can discuss this further.

P.S.: Which app did you develop? Can I download it from Google Play Store?

Best regards,
Kl3m3n

kl3m3n

@heromed BTW - If you like GUI-O app, please consider leaving a review on Google Play Store.

Thanks.
Kl3m3n