[comp.windows.x] User Interface Generation Tools, and UIL bashing.

gjc@eileen.mga.com (George J. Carrette) (10/11/89)

One trick I've picked up to speed up development with UIL is to have
a command to reload the hierarchy and reconstruct my toplevel widget
and refetch other widgets as needed while my application is running
and under development. Callback tables are also set up via dynamic linking.

Of course you have to structure your application in a certain way,
and keep track of your objects a lot better than most example application
codes you see, but it is well worth the setup work (setup design work).

These techniques contradict many of the things said against UIL, such
as the static nature of the thing. 

To make UIL code more readable: Use C-mode in GNU-EMACS but with
a LISP indenting style. 


-gjc