XRC - Yeah or Nay? Topic is solved

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This is such a noobie question but one that I've never been able to fully gleen an answer from anywehere.

I use DialogBlocks to generate my dialogs and then Visual Studio on Windows and XCode on a Mac to code and build, and so far I don't use the XRC files.

But would that be a preferred way to go, generate the dialogs in XRC files etc. I've not been able to find (probably under my nose) any pro's/cons on using/not using XRC files!

Some learned opinions would help me.

Thanks in advance, Richard

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I've been using XRC files since I found out about them (+3 years ago). Its been a great idea ever since. Any time you can use a MVC paradigm, it probably is a good move. There are several advantages to decoupling code from UI. I'm not a teacher, so you can look it up. But yes I use XRCed to build GUIs on Mac, Linux, and Win32.

Simply, I recommend it.

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The most important advangtage of XRCs is that you don't need to recompile your code every time you make a little change in the GUI. You actually don't need compiler at all to edit GUI contained in a XRC. You can insert a new element and preview it instantly. The major disadvantage is that XRCs may not be as flexible as hardcoding GUI elements.

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Thanks, much appreciated. I tried it on my project and I use a wxGRid which I believe isn't fully XRC'd yet. But I can work it out from here on in.