Marmalade UI builder

Question

I'm just starting out with my Marmalade career with 6.1.

I'm aware they discontinued their UI builder in favor of 3rd party solutions. However, "Marmalade Ui Builder" in google brings up nothing in the first 3 pages (past 3 pages is always too far).

Are there such 3rd party tools? Or are people actually using notepad and writing ui's by hand?

I've seen an XML UI Builder that simply parses XML in to the .ui style. However, I don't see how that's any easier than typing everything out manually.

It also is ambiguous as to whether IwUI is actually the proper way to go about it anymore.

Some insight would be wonderful.

Answer 1

IwUI is old system replaced with IwNUI. N states for Native. IwNUI uses native controls for each platform.

I have not used Iw*UI for games it is more simpler to write interface in GL myself. Basic Screens/Buttons manager is coded in few hours.

It is simpler to write such thing your self then learn that is has something you can't change.

If you develop business apps then Marmalade added PhoneGap support. I believe PhoneGap to be a better way for business cross-platform apps. Especially because most mobile platforms share WebKit engine. What is more important Marmalade Team them selves do not believe in Iw*UI and that is why they are forcing PhoneGap on Marmalade.

In other words do not use Iw*UI if do not know why you actually need it.

There is 3rd party 2D game engine IwGame. I do not use it but it has its own Interface Builder that defines interface in XML.