GUI ~ Writer's Block Dilemma!

Has anyone experienced these same frustrations???

I have a project which will appraise items and then store in a database for future references... I know where I want to be ending up with all of this as well!

What's frustrating is... I've spent a BUNCH of time on the GUI only to keep modifying and moving things around, until it's a mess!

Now I absolutley hate what I have and I'm going to start all over again! I feel as if I've wasted over a week of my spare time in developing this thing!

How have some of you overcome this, or is it just me???

[BruceG]

Actually, I always thought of the GUI as the "fun" part of developing an app. But I know where you're coming from, and I've completely redesigned many a GUI (and it can be time-consuming, modifying all the TabIndexes, etc.)

What may help is if you sketch out your GUI design on paper first, before jumping into VB.

Just my $0.02.

[V(ery) Basic]

What I've learned to do is make the GUI first.

(Sketching it out out on a piece of paper like BruceG helps)

Then I make the app round the GUI.

It sounds weird but I find it saves time.

My $0.03

Yeah I've done all of that too!

But then I come up with new ideas and "better" ways of designing the GUI that all of a sudden it's nowhere near what I had imagined!

Then the FLOW of the GUI is distorted! And I can hardly see my monitor for all of the crumpled up balls of paper piling up around me!