Proposal for a Visual Layout Designer / WYSIWYG Tool for NAppGUI

[ptrailblazer89]

Hello Author,
Thank you for the excellent work on NAppGUI. It is one of the few professional-grade SDKs left for the pure C community.
I have been evaluating the SDK and noticed the heavy reliance on manual code for layout composition. While I understand and appreciate the technical superiority of "Natural Sizing" and dynamic grids over static Win32 pixel coordinates, manual coding remains significantly slower and more bug-prone than visual design.
Has there been any consideration for a "Visual Layout Generator"? Specifically:
A tool where one could define the grid/cell hierarchy visually.
The ability to "drag" components into cells to establish relationships.
An exporter that generates the corresponding C layout code (similar to how the old Glade worked for GTK).
Microsoft’s abandonment of C developers has left a gap where we must choose between "easy but broken" (Win32 .rc) or "robust but code-heavy" (NAppGUI). A visual companion for NAppGUI would bridge this gap and make it the undisputed standard for professional C GUI development.

Best Regards

[frang75]

Hi @ptrailblazer89!

NAppGUI Designer is work in progress.

But not only for Windows. The exported forms (and designer itself) will be cross-platform.

[ptrailblazer89]

The progress on NAppGUI Designer is excellent.
Hope it will eventually excel beyond and outmatch in look and functionality of professional Win32 GUI components and fill the missing, yet essential, functionalities left unaddressed by Microsoft in cold in favor of MFC/WPF and supplement its gui components Library