Wish Visual Designer, new feature, Import bal file

Jmu5667 said:

Hello

I think it would be a cool feature to import bal files from within the Visual Designer, or at least attempt to import most of the controls. If it can't convert a control, just create a label with the same name. A small import report could be displayed in a window showing what it did. You could copy the report if you so wish.

Thanks in advance

John.

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Magma said:

In General... would nice if any designer of B4X can open/import any layout of 3 platforms... without need to copy-past... general be compatible someway...

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AnandGupta said:

Since when we copy + paste from one layout to another (may it be between two B4A or B4A and B4J), the designer knows how to paste the copied view.
So import can also employ the same and do the trick.

Lets hope Erel gets some time, as he did for Snippets

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Sandman said:

As long as we're tagging on more wishes for the visual designer in this thread, I'd like to bring along an old wish: Switch so the visual designer uses a text-based file format, to make it work better with source tools like Git, Mercurial, etc. (I do remember that Erel has some good reason for why it's better to keep it binary, but that doesn't help when I review source and just see a binary blob.)

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Sandman said:

As long as we're tagging on more wishes for the visual designer in this thread, I'd like to bring along an old wish: Switch so the visual designer uses a text-based file format, to make it work better with source tools like Git, Mercurial, etc. (I do remember that Erel has some good reason for why it's better to keep it binary, but that doesn't help when I review source and just see a binary blob.)

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epiCode said:

That will be super helpful esp. in scenarios where you have to change a control type to another or do a regex find and replace to change some values in bulk.

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