Go check it out!
http://www.bit-101.com/MinimalDesigner/
Still lots to do. As far as the properties panel goes, the first column should pretty much work. The second column partially works. The others, not at all. As far as code generation, it just generates a list of the components with constructors and sets any properties (right now only width and height, as needed). Eventually, I plan to make it generate a full class. Also, you have a limited list of components to work with. No container classes (Panel, Window, HBox, or VBox) yet, and none of the more esoteric components. But this should be enough to do some basic layouts, which will actually compile. 🙂
I’m not even sure if anyone will even find this useful, but I’m having a lot of fun making it, so there you go.
…its useful from my point of view…some basic questions regarding as3 could be provided here rather than going through the hassle of searching it…
This is pretty awesome. I find it tedious and counter-productive to manually lay out UI components via code, so I find this incredibly useful. Thanks for the hard work on this and the components!
Some ideas for a future revision of this:
– “save” / “load” sessions, or just allow the pasting of the code you generate to reproduce the layout in the MinimalDesigner
– support for keyboard commands; nudging, deleting, etc
hey,
looks great! very useful as long as it really keeps simpel and minimal.
this is just great dude! thanks!
great, love it, badly needs drag and drop from element buttons to stage – good work though
Definitely useful.. it saves having to remember the API calls to construct the components, and the WYSIWYG layout saves having to calculate layout in your head and then by trial and error when you get it wrong.
Looks fabulous! Love it! 🙂
Yep – definitely useful Keith, thanks.
Hey man! When you will share this source with us? i can’t wait! perfect!
Looks awesome Keith!!!
I will surely use it, keep up the great work!
This is really cool!
Certainly a very useful little timesaver.
Thanks Keith!
😀