On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 8:17 AM, Barry Scott <[email protected]> wrote:

> > A graphical "hello world" in QT is only half a dozen or less lines of
> > code in total, so
> > meets the simplicity requirement.
>
> I think 2 lines is simple, 12 is not really simple, is it?
>

well, if all you need is a single dialog box with  one or two entry fields,
then yes, 2-4 lines is better than 12-14 lines -- but a lot.

But if you are building an actual application, I'm not sure that the extra
ten lines of startup code matters at all. And if those ten lines are
essentially boilerplate that you can copy and paste from somewhere (Or have
a gui-builder write for you), then even less so.

That's not to say that the GUI toolkit slike wxPython, PySide, pyGTK aren't
a bit more complex than they need to be, but much of that complex is there
to support complex needs.

I do think there is a place for tools that make "the easy stuff easy", but
make sure that the complex stuff is still possible.

-CHB

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