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diff --git a/examples/apps/uidesigner/readme.txt b/examples/apps/uidesigner/readme.txt deleted file mode 100644 index b0ffd0eb..00000000 --- a/examples/apps/uidesigner/readme.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,50 +0,0 @@ - - fpGUI's Visual User Interface Designer - ====================================== - - -Introduction -============ - -fpGUI Designer is a port of a product called VFD written by Nagy Viktor in 2003. -I ported VFD to fpGUI because I thought it would add a lot to the framework as -a whole. I could see it has lots of potential and could easily be extended to -become a great tool. What I immediately liked about VFD is that it used the -same source unit and writes actual code describing the UI like I would have -done manually. This departs from the GUI designers used in Lazarus or Delphi -where they save the UI code to external files (*.lfm or *.dfm respectively). - - -Features -======== - -* It uses the same source unit where your normal code lives. No external GUI - files. - -* It can handle "unknown" or "custom" components and properties. Whenever the - designer finds a component it doesn't natively know it paints a green - rectangle in it's place. Whenever it finds properties it doesn't know it - adds them "as is" to the Unknown section memo in the Properties window. Any - code in the Unknown memo will be written back to the source unit "as is". - -* The designer can handle more that one form in a unit. - -* When creating a new form, that form can be merged into an existing unit or - the designer will create a new unit for it. - -* The designer uses comment markers in the code to define what parts it will - maintain. Existing code (Forms) can be easily amended (manually by the - programmer) so that the designer can start managing it. No need to redesign - Forms from scratch. - - - -Graeme Geldenhuys - September 2007 - - ============================================ - - - - - - |