GUI's Can't be Modified.

OK, I'm back to ranting and raving about GUI's.

You can't change a GUI. You are stuck with what you've got. If you have an operation you would like to do often, you would probably like to have a simple way to do it. If the GUI provides a complicated and long string of actions to perform it you can not change this. You have to click and click and click each time you want to do it. No code, means no ability to change things. Code means control of the way things operation. No code means the GUI builder controls how things operate. IF the GUI builder doesn't know what you are going to do with their program, they can't set it up to work efficiently for you.

Why don't GUI's expose little bits of code so that you could modify some portion of the way they GUI operate and also have a reset button if you mucked the code up? We can do this.

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I'm not sure if you're familiar with applescript... on macs when you write a program you can provide a sort of interface for functions in your program that users can use to automate and script things. Having something similar for GUIs would be really cool, so you can customize and share your modified GUIs.

I don't know applescript, but this sounds like the sort of thing that can help get past some of the problems with GUI's. My experience with doing such things is that managers disallow them. As people get more sophisticated with computers I hope this will change.

You should check out the video on this site as well, they're doing interesting things to enhance existing GUIs, but site the lack of interfaces with GUI toolkits as a major hang-up for the future of computing. http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/jfogarty/research/prefab/