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Software Engineering of GUI Programming?
cucucu asks: "After ten years of programming for the network, I started programming a GUI Desktop application. My problem is most GUI tutorials out there are nothing more than a taxonomy of buttons, dialogs, and check-boxes. So as I checked GUI toolkits, I found that I can easily learn all the widgets, layouts, callbacks, and the like, and start coding a GUI application. However, very soon I found myself repeating code all over the place. Is there a good guide (online or off) for the Software Engineering aspects of GUI programming, so that I can learn how to reuse code, and build my class hierarchies over the one provided by the toolkit?"
I do Java Swing GUIs and I tend to agree with you. The eclipse visual editor plugin makes GUI creation very easy, but it has it's limits. Almost every time I have used it, I have hit some point at which I wanted to do something that the visual editor did not understand. When I hit that point, I have to get in and code it by hand. Since I learned how to do it from code when I started, this is not too much of a problem. So it does help to know what the code means.