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Ask HN: How to build a Codiqa-like interface?

5 points by bazookaBen ↗ HN
Any good tutorials to learn how to build one?

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yesimahuman
:) :) this just popped up on my Google Alerts. I built Codiqa, what do you want to know?
bazookaBen
nice! I want to learn how to build a simple iphone/android emulator running on the web, which I can drag drop elements into.
yesimahuman
Well, there are a lot of drag and drop libraries that can help you with basic DnD, I suggest starting there (for example, jQuery UI). After that it's a matter of positioning and rendering elements. It's really a deep topic, perhaps do some studying of an interface builder like Glade to see how they do certain things. For component object model stuff I really like AWT and Swing.