On Jun 2, 3:36 am, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gilles Ganault wrote: > >> Thegridcan be quite advanced. Did you look at the wxPython demo? Or > >> Dabo? > > > Yes, but although the basic wigets are just fine, wxGrid looks a bit > > like the basic TStringGrid in Delphi, ie. it's pretty basic so that > > several vendors came up with enhanced alternatives. But maybe I > > haven't played with it long enough. > > You don't say anything about looking at Dabo. If you are serious about > writing real business apps, then you really do need to look at Dabo. > While it's GUI objects may not be quite up to what you need, the > framework itself is very critical to developing business apps. From > your posts in this thread, it sounds to me like Dabo would greatly help > you build the back-end database and business logic at least. > > Despite what you say about web interfaces in business applications, from > what I've seen it's all going that way. PeopleSoft, etc. Everything is > about web-delivered apps, with web services and custom integration these > days. HTML/CSS/Ajax and a bit of Silverlight or Flash for the super > custom widgets is actually competing *very* well with the traditional > Delphi business widgets. True this requires you to maintain "code" in > multiple languages, but frankly that's the cost of doing business. > Business apps are *complicated* to build.
If your web application uses Silverlight, then the client side part can be written in Python (IronPython). Michael Foord http://www.ironpythoninaction.com/ > > When it does come down to it, you'll probably have to build some of your > own widgets. PyQT makes this quite easy. Canvases, HTML widgets, etc. > If you're going to all the work of developing a complete business app, > then the work that goes into developing custom GUI components isn't that > bad, compared. > > Since your target audience appears to be windows users, though, I'd > second the notion of using IronPython and leveraging SWF .NET widgets. > In theory this would run fine under Mono on Unix if you wanted to branch > out. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list