[Chandler-dev] open XRC editor

[Grant Baillie]

On 21 Aug, 2006, at 10:38, Morgen Sagen wrote:

> Backstory:  A long time ago I needed to work on the account  
> preferences dialog, and it was suggested that I use XRC files to  
> define the layout.  Of the XRC editors I could find at the time,  
> wxdesigner -- although proprietary -- was the best (meaning it  
> crashed the least often).  Since that time, most of our dialogs  
> have been produced using wxdesigner which stores the "source" of a  
> dialog's layout in some binary format and generates XRC files as  
> output.  This hadn't been too much of a problem since I was doing  
> most of the dialog editing.
>
> However:  Having people need to purchase a proprietary tool to help  
> us out with dialogs isn't going to fly, obviously, as illustrated  
> by comments in this bug:
>
>    https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6471
>
> So the time has come to stop using wxdesigner's binary format as  
> the "source" of our dialogs, and have the XRC files take over that  
> role in order to allow people to use any XRC editor they wish.
>
> I propose we remove the .wdr files from application/dialogs/ and  
> rename the *_wdr.xrc files to *.xrc.  Plus if anyone has experience  
> with any open source XRC editors out there, please reply to this  
> message with your review of the tool.

+1. Besides the reasons given, it will allow us to fix the incorrect  
positioning of dialog buttons on the Mac.

--Grant