On Sun, 02 Apr 2023 13:50:45 -0700 (PDT), Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2023-04-02, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 4/2/23 05:09, Dietmar Schwertberger wrote: >>> I also did evaluate all the GUI builder from time to time between 2000 >>> and 2016 to find one that I could recommend to colleagues, but could >>> not find one. Then I started contributing to wxGlade and I can say >>> that since a few years it's as easy again to build GUIs as it was with >>> VB6. >> >> [...] >> >> But any modern GUI toolkit has sizers and layout managers. If you're >> manually placing elements you cannot deal with HiDPI or changing window >> sizes. > > Ah, that's the brilliant thing about VB6 apps! They only work properly > on machines with the same resoultion and display/font configuration as > the developer.
VB6 isn't the only thing that goes to hell in a hand basket when you start playing around with fonts and resolutions. If I were emperor of the world there would only be monospaced fonts and a limited selection of those. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list