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by **Rob_-_Kram..** » Wed, 07 Jun 1995 04:00:00

Anybody know of a fast way to simulate a GUI front end, with
icons, drag-and-drop, custom widgets, menus etc without actually
writing it in a procedural language? Some kind of prototyping
or simulation tool that we can give to marketing people and
have them design what they want to see in the final product
quickly?
Environment would be MS Windows or UNIX/Motif.
either one.
Rob Kramarz
1776, Inc.
Software for mission-critical systems

by **Ralf B. Lukn** » Tue, 13 Jun 1995 04:00:00

I see two practical options:

1. A nice drawing program with which a picture resembling the interface
can be drawn. There are many choices and some are very sophisticated
and easy to use. If you choose this option you should check with a
competent GUI programmer about limitations in actually creating a GUI
(at least what is easy to do and what isn't).

2. An inexpensive GUI builder. This is not so "inexpensive" and a lot more
complex, because such a tool is actually designed to create real GUI's.
Some can be very easy to create simple GUI's with. If you want
sophisticated GUI prototypes, you'll need expert programmers to operate
the GUI builder.

Take a look at my report on GUI development tools if you are interested in
option 2 at
<URL:http://www.che.utexas.edu/fluids-group/cpp_tools_eval.html>. There
is also a site for anonymous ftp at ftp.che.utexas.edu (look in
pub/PasteFlow/Reports/C++_tools_eval).

Best Wishes,
--Ralf

> Anybody know of a fast way to simulate a GUI front end, with
> icons, drag-and-drop, custom widgets, menus etc without actually
> writing it in a procedural language? Some kind of prototyping
> or simulation tool that we can give to marketing people and
> have them design what they want to see in the final product
> quickly?
> Environment would be MS Windows or UNIX/Motif.
> either one.
> Rob Kramarz
> 1776, Inc.
> Software for mission-critical systems

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GUI front-end simulator needed

GUI front-end simulator needed

GUI front-end simulator needed