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Re: Visual PHP3?



> When I'm able to drag object (button/selection/text box/whatever) on
> screen using mouse, place it anywhere I want, to enter is nice
> window it's attributes, maybe some javascript (with on-line help of
> course), then to switch to php3 window (which already has "incoming"
> variables) and to write php3 code (with on-line function syntax like in VC)

Just how it is related to PHP3 I wonder? PHP3 is not GUI toolkit, neither
HTML editor. Take any HTML editor (like asWedit), you get nice windows 
with tags properties. Take Nutscape Composer - you get even more,
WYSI(Almost)WYG. This is totally unrelated to PHP3. If you search enough,
you may even find some editor that knows about Javascript objects
and properties (though no editor will write Javascipt functions for you).

Be also warned that in HTML there's no "place where I want", generally.
Each browser renders elements differently, each user has own settings. 
Most pixel-oriented layouts I've seen behave very bad in non-standard
fonts, screen sizes and with non-usual font size/screen resolution
combinations. I say nothing about these pages being totally broken in,
say, Opera or Arena or Mnemonic-to-come.

I still can't understand why dragging box with picture of "h1" over half
a screen, while requiring precise targeting on destination, is faster than
pressing four keys "<h1>", but it might be my personal problem.

Now, I see no meaning to entering input variables into PHP code, since
this will be no more than simple list of variables, which has no use 
of itself unless you have a very bad memory. In PHP3, you should wire
code, list of variables won't help you much. 
Syntax hiliting you get in emacs, for example. 

It seems you mess here GUI scripting language (which VB is) with HTML
editing and with server-side scripting languages like PHP3, which is three
different things and work different and require different things to
define and program. 

> > How should we apply Microsoft's TM name to this product?
> 
> Didn't knew it is TM...

Visual (Basic|C++|J++) is TM, though the word "visual" obviuosly isn't.
You just write "Visual" as if it should imply some well-defined behaviour,
and for me it says no more than Odoral PHP3, even less, because most
computer products I know are "visual" - I see them and interact with them
according to what I see.

To sum it up, I do not think you'll find the tool you are looking for,
since I do not see how such a tool might be useful to most people - and
only some companies may allow themselves to write non-useful tools.
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