Need some opinions for a GUI editor

[Flamaros]

On Wednesday, 29 May 2013 at 17:28:52 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On 05/28/2013 11:25 PM, Flamaros wrote:
>> 2) Integrated editor (launch with the user application in a 
>> second Window)
>>  a) Good :
>>     - Preview is the final result with real data
>>     - All application components accessible to the editor 
>> without
>> complex plugin system (in this way all editors components will 
>> be well
>> placed in the preview)
>>     - Full real-time edition (can preview menus 
>> transitions,...)
>>     - User can customize the editor
>>  b) Bad :
>>     - Intrusive in the application code
>>     - Force the user to port application on a desktop OS 
>> (Linux, Mac or
>> Windows), not friendly if he target only embedded devices (can 
>> be
>> bypassed with a remote system)
>>     - Less stable editor?
>
> I think an integrated editor has a huge benefit because of the 
> instant feedback.
> You could use IPC and have the editor in a separate 
> application. That is probably more difficult to implement but 
> it mitigates your negative points.
>
> https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/remote-debugging

Yes that just what I think about this evening, developing the 
editor with an Object reflection trough a network API. If the API 
of the protocol is enough good it will certainly possible to 
implement something trough USB too.

I think we'll need use more __traits :-).

It will like remote debugging on JVM too.