Jim Crafton has posted some interesting info here at the TBJ forums. It's about the Visual Component Framework, or VCF for short.

As Jim goes on to say, the framework has it's similarities with Borland's (and Java) VCL. There is also an IDE builder available.

Here's more, from Jim himself:

"All changes made to the form are reflected immediately in the C++ code - there is no need for a separate code gen step, like Qt's Designer, or Glade, etc. (...) Future plans include supoprt for debugging so this would be a sophisticated IDE that is unique as far as I can tell (from a price/functionality standpoint)."

Very interesting indeed. We can never have too much apps for BeOS and most importantly (in my opinion), OpenBeOS, as well as the other "phoenix" projects.

For his complete post click here. For VFC's site, point your mouse.this way.