[sldev] GUI prototype speedup tricks

[Lawson English]

Harold Brown wrote:
> Just tested..  I'm not sure what "turnaround for GUI testing rather 
> slow" means in your context.  It appears to me that each time ctrl-t 
> is pressed it re-reads the floater_test.xml file.  So prototyping a 
> GUI screen should go fairly quick.  So the lag time of the initial 
> load would seem to be the only delay you should be seeing.
>  
> If it's for loading up faster to test new GUI controls / refactored 
> controls.   Well you probably just a few minutes compiling.... so the 
> load time shouldn't be any more of an impediment to testing.
I'm testing more than just an xml file though. I' trying to fudge the 
behavior of an outline list for non-asset data, which means I have at 
least a few lines of GUI code to test as well.