Change UI to scenes rather than code generated

[TokisanGames]

It's very difficult for us to improve and build upon the UI when generated by code. It should be built as a scene in Godot and instanced by the code.

eg

const UI = "res://addons/gterrain/ui/GTerrainUI.tscn"

ui = load(UI).instantiate()
ui.ted = self
add_control_to_bottom_panel(ui, "Terrain Editor")
make_bottom_panel_item_visible(ui)

[outobugi]

I strongly disagree. I find it much easier to work on the UI when it's all in code.
The UI code could be separated to multiple scripts instead of sub classes.

[TokisanGames]

There are two of us now and eventually there will be more contributors who will find designing a UI with GUI tools much easier. Designing, experimenting and implementing the proper placement on something like this takes a long time. The discovery phase of something like this in code would take 2-10x longer.

[outobugi]

10x longer? That's ridiculous.
The UI will not stay in GDScript. It will be moved to C++ and when that comes the transition is fast because the code and logic is already there.

[TokisanGames]

It's not ridiculous. I'm not talking about the speed of code. I'm talking about design time.

[outobugi]

I'm not talking about the speed of code. I'm talking about design time.

I know.

[Calinou]

What I did for godotengine/godot#79599 is to prototype the UI in Godot + GDScript with the editor, then rewrite it in C++.

To help yourself with rewriting the UI in C++ (and knowing which properties you should set in the constructor), I suggest looking at the saved .tscn file in a text editor. Only non-default properties are saved there.