> >> I > >> thought someone had built a wxGlade package for OS-X. > > wxDesigner is available, and the cost of its being commercial is not an issue. Its pretty limited functionality is more the issue. It does not seem capable of building complex windows, more aimed at dialog boxes, and even then the controls are not particularly... graceful.
wxGlade is obviously available, and a few others, but they all are buggy, with interface glitches, and crashing being pretty common. That sort of tool does not make one more productive, nor does it have much of an educational benefit for new developers. In my tour of the available tools on OSX for developers wanting an IDE, I've found that only WingIDE is stable and fully featured, though it runs only in X11. There is no interface builder for X-Plat development on OSX which is ready for prime-time that I have seen. This leads me to believe that for general users, wanting to move to Python from other high-level scripting languages which DO include an IDE (Flash, Director, Revolution, RealBasic), OSX is NOT the platform to do it on. The tools landscape is much less refined, and the options far fewer, and a whole lot more buggy. Both Windows and Linux have many better options for designing GUIs, as well as scripting and debugging. My recommendation for developers who want to make the switch to Python, but need to be productive relatively quickly... stay away from OSX. Which is extremely difficult for me to say, since over the last few years I have converted my entire company to OSX. Time to make room for some Linux boxes, as Linux has commercial tools available. I think many of us want open-source, but commercial tool kits, with commercial refinements and support. -- Troy Rollins RPSystems, Ltd. www.rpsystems.net _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
