* rzed <rzan...@gmail.com> [110611 05:14]: > Desktop apps don't seem to be the wave of the future, but they still > serve a useful purpose today. They can be ideal for a quick database > table management screen, or a data entry front end for a program with > a bunch of parameters. It's not easy enough to build a quick utility > with a GUI front end, though. Wax and PythonCard (and maybe others) > tried to hit that niche, but development on both is spotty at best. > Some claim that Dabo's gui builder is a good one for this purpose, and > maybe it can be. Are there any other, better solutions? > > I've been looking at Rebol lately, and it has some points of interest. > I much prefer Python as a language, but Rebol View's layout > specifications are wonderfully concise, and the support code seems to > be fairly straightforward as well. Has anyone tried to mimic their > approach in Python? I've used rebol for over 11 years. Longer than I have used python. I've not used rebol/view however, since my meal-ticket is console and web progamming. I'm guessing that you are going to find that difficult to do, but my suggestion would be:
1)Get into one of the rebol communities - probably thru altme. 2)You will find that most rebol programmers work in other languages also, and quite a few (like me) in python. 3)You are likely to get a lot of ideas there. cheers -- Tim tim at johnsons-web dot com or akwebsoft dot com http://www.akwebsoft.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list