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From: Pierre Weis <Pierre.Weis@inria.fr>
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Subject: Re: OCaml's long range graphical direction?
In-Reply-To: <20010209205803.A7869@pauillac.inria.fr> from Jerome Vouillon at "Feb 9, 101 08:58:03 pm"
To: Jerome.Vouillon@inria.fr (Jerome Vouillon)
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> I disagree.  When designing an interface, there are a lot of tweakings
> (frame widths, alignements, ...) which are easily done using an
> interface builder but much more tedious to program (and you often need
> to recompile a lot of time to get them right).
[...]
> -- Jerome

Those kind of tuning are easy to do when using some interactive system;
that's why we worked hard to provide interactive versions of our *tk
GUI, so that there is no need to recompile to only change some integer
value. Evidently, an interactive interface builder could also do the
same, but it is not necessary ...

Hope this helps,

Pierre Weis

INRIA, Projet Cristal, Pierre.Weis@inria.fr, http://pauillac.inria.fr/~weis/