Just wanted to let you all know about the current status of the
Dabo Designer. As of today, you can create a basic single-form
application with full control over the appearance of the form and its
controls, complete with editable code. This is a big milestone for
the Designer!
In order to test this, I created an app that reads in my 'hold'
file where my email server places suspected spam messages, parses
that file into separate messages, and then displays the main headers
in a grid. When you change records in the grid, the body of the
selected message is displayed in an EditBox. Any valid messages can
be saved to a file that I select; the rest are sent to the bit bucket.
So while this isn't the most complex app in the world, it is far
from trivial, and it was created start-to-finish in the Designer. I'd
say that if you have some time over the next couple of days off from
work, grab the latest commits from either Subversion or the nightly
builds, and start playing!
-- Ed Leafe
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