On Feb 9, 2005, at 2:32 PM, Troy Rollins wrote:
which I suppose is what PyObjC is all about...
I'm sure you could write an app with Cocoa that didn't look or feel like
a Mac app either, but it would be harder.
That being said, I think there is a convergent of styles between Windows, Mac, and Unix. It's just not that different anymore.
In theory that is certainly true, in practice... well, for some odd reason there is a LOT of bad GUI in the windows world, and VERY little good. Mac users pay more attention to GUI, and that exists to this day, even though the toolsets are similar if the exactly the same. Mac programs look and feel better on the whole than Windows programs do. I used iTunes on Windows the other day and said "you know, if all windows apps worked like this, it might be ok..." (And yes, I know that iTunes breaks almost every HIG rule, but what I'm talking about is simply the careful layout and consideration of design, not the "by the book GUI".)
Uh.. yeah :)
The concept of an environment like REALbasic, Mac-like GUI designer, editor, debugger, but which uses Python as the language sounds just wonderful to me. That is an environment I could work in every day – like I do Director now.
I believe that PythonCard is attempting to become such an environment, and it is based on wxPython so it will be cross-platform like the other platforms you have significant experience with. It sounds like it is coming along well, but I haven't played with it significantly.
-bob
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