I don’t know why but I need at least 4 or 5 hour just for creating a simple Form. I don’t know if I am using wrong tools but it is a little… embarassing to need so many time for making interface.
According me, It coul be link to Swing’s philosophy. I think now language must be more like HTML like. It is enought simple to make interface as fast as the wind, and got enought options to be more configurable.
Perhaps making html interface for application is a better idea ? I don’t know but I need to find a way to be better in interface development because next form would be complicated.
So the good news, it is that now user car change Social Bridge’s preferences with a form and save it….
Next step would be to allow user to create new treatment….
4 to 5 hours to build that form?! Have you thought of using netbeans? Personally, I’m old school, I like to handcode everything…and handcoding that wouldn’t take me more than 1 hour.
It’s just experience. It would take me 4 to 5 hours to code that in html, as well as making it cross browser, and if you want to ajaxify etc. then I’m sure it will take much longer.
I use IntelliJ’s file templates, and have a file template for Views which create a lot of boilerplate code for me whenever I need to create a new view.
Netbeans gui builder is nice though for people not as experienced in swing.
April 18th, 2008