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==List of basic widgets==

:This section should list all the basic widgets proposed by the designer, like radio-buttons, checkboxes, simple buttons, labels, top-level windows, dialog boxes, layout controllers, and others. The list should be as extensive as possible, taking in account the differences there might exist between versions of a certain designer --only ONE version per designer will be studied--.

==List of additionnal widgets==

:This section should list *all* the basic widgets proposed by the designer --*all* because of version differences--. These widgets depends on the purpose of the project being generated. For instance in glade you can have gtk+ additional widgets and/or GNOME widgets.

==Disposition of tools in the environment and the environment itself==

:This section should describe:

::how the environment is presented to the user, multiple detached windows like glade or MDI like Qt-Designer or Visual Studio

::when/where is the "working canvas", the area where the user can manipulate the widgets.

::how/where/when the available widgets are display. How to select them and add them to a "working canvas".

::support for standard user interaction, like copy/paste, undo drag-and-drop

::what are the different editing modes : 
:::is there a real-time preview mode
:::where/how can one change attributes of the widgets
:::where/how/when can one change the layout/position/tab order of a widget
:::where/how can one specify different responses to windowing/interaction events, clicks, resizes, font changes
:::is there multi-language support

::can one display the widgets' tree

::are there visual aids for the user, like tooltips, information on a status bar, on-line help, documentation, how useful/explanatory are these aids

::can one generate code from within the application, can one generate an XML interface description, what are the supported languages/libraries,  is there a possibility to add plugins/use other applications for code generation

::screenshots under different platforms

::what future improvements/changes are foreseen

==Using the designer==

:This section will describe the process of creating a single user interface from within different designers and writing down comments on its utilization. For this task only common widgets will be used to maintain a certain coherence in the comparisons. Close attention will be payed to :

::time spent

::facility to use the tools, layout widgets, specify/change attributes

::limitations, like text capacity, windowing/user triggered events not supported

::can one edit the XML by hand and reload it successfully

::are there any additional libraries/software dependencies that must be met to install/use the designer