Using WFS for generating GUIs?

Hi Peter,

you have created a really great tool. While using it, an idea came up: Do you see a chance to use WFS for generating GUIs?

If WFS offers a kind of "connection points" to plugin code for each design element, the code could be implemented by others for whatever target language there is.

Best regards Gerhard

Hi Gerhard,

Thank you for your kind words.

We don't believe in general purpose code generation tool, but it can work in specific cases with some constraints applied.

Some of our customers create their own tools to do custom code generation. WireframeSketcher facilitates this at several levels:

• Screen files are saved using an open and documented XML format that custom tools can read/write
• We provide an open-source Java API for working with screens. It lets you load screen files, manipulate the object model and save it back to XML.
• WireframeSketcher lets you set customId and customData properties on any widget. This properties can be interpreted by your own tools. See "Custom Properties" entry in context menu.

Please let me know if this is what you are looking for.

Hello Peter,

thanks a lot for your fast response. In fact, these informations are helping me a lot. Using the XML files seems to be an appropriate way for our needs here, however, the EMF approach may be interesting; we'll have to evaluate this.

Kind regards, Gerhard