And people has being asking for years now when the Control sets are going to be in Web 2.0. It is the main reason not to migrate for some users
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Of all the topics related to control sets, I dindt see a single one related to create items at runtime, but about having a single event and/or having a better experience on the IDE.
When I asked about in Web I was pointed otu to Simplified: Adding User Interface Controls at Runtime – Xojo Programming Blog
How is it “simpler” or “better” or any “good” to create a extra container, add a lot of code and not have a preview VS just add the controls in the IDE?
Having 20 controls to reuse, Create them in the IDE, manage them in a single event handler and iterate with the index, have a better IDE experience by not having code in 20 events. It was EASY, now thinking about doing all the design in code plus having code on 20 events makes me avoid web2 only by this lack of functionality itself
And by the way, Not having control sets on web, not only makes things worse, dificult and verbose, it is even broken:
https://tracker.xojo.com/xojoinc/xojo/-/issues/69680
Xojo said that Control sets on Web 2 Were “deffered”, maybe many users are still waiting for them. There is also a Feature Request: