Maker: On Device Drag & Drop GUI Builder + External 3rd Party Plugins!

The PC isn't going away tomorrow but I think we took a major step in reducing the need for it when building some applications in the upcoming version of Maker. We just launched a very preliminary preview of our new Drag & Drop form designer for Maker. This is pretty rough early on, but having built quite a few GUI builders I can tell you that its 90% there! You can drag elements into place, yes they are all in a vertical layout (BoxLayout Y) and there is no container hierarchy (yet) but the infrastructure is there and its already looking better than our current GUI builder looked at that stage!

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