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• This would be extremely helpful. Any chance this will show up soon?

• This would be extremely helpful. Any chance this will show up soon?

• you can design your gui with apples interface builder and convert the generated xib with xib2js ( http://blog.frogonmobile.com/apps/xib2js/ )

• As opposed to a full blown WYSIWYG drag and drop gui editor, what about something like http://www.jsfiddle.net/ ?
  Imagine a simple web interface where you can write you code in one pane, and immediately see a sample of the results in another pane. Something like this would help a lot, and it should be far easier to develop than the WYSIWYG drag and drop interface. I'm going to play around and explore this idea a little.

• The best option would be to write a WebApp which lets us pick and place and resize UI elements. And then generates the corresponding Titanium API JS code for it.
  This is on my list of things to do, but…not very high. Though it would speed dev time…

• I would say that an integrated debugger should be way up the list above a GUI designer - it's not that hard to do them by hand. Having said that I'd be hopeful something might appear as an Aptana plugin, once the Ti-integrated version of that appears.

• Kevin,

  I think you just made the justification ! Speeding up Dev time ! And along side that, eliminate coding errors where the visual design replaced hand coding. I think its a biggie. I know, many of us are coming from the woods of Visual Studio, but that is a development platform that has evolved due to the priority to create fast, error free development projects.

  Whoa… and for those who will say "Hey, I prefer to code by hand, its really the better way". Right-on bro, continue to do so !

• Would also appreciate something like this, it would surely speed up development time for a lot of us!