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Re: gEDA-user: Reinventing the wheel



On May 17, 2011, at 9:56 AM, Russell Shaw wrote:

> 
> Most guis hide what they do. I believe in them showing the commands they
> send internally as a script would (or atleast have the option to show that)
> so the user can paste the commands into an external file if needed.

I've done GUIs that wrap scripts, but it only works in very simple, shallow cases. An API that supports GUI well is very different from an API that supports scripting well.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
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