Re: Pythonic cross-platform GUI desingers à la Interface Builder (Re: what gui designer is everyone using)

2012-06-29 Thread rusi
On Jun 10, 3:36 pm, Arnaud Delobelle wrote: > On 10 June 2012 07:16, rusi wrote: > > > This is worth a read in this > > context:http://osteele.com/archives/2004/11/ides > > Interesting! I definitely fall nicely at one extreme of this > dichotomy.  Every time I've tried to use an IDE, it's made

Re: Re: Pythonic cross-platform GUI desingers à la Interface Builder (Re: what gui designer is everyone using)

2012-06-22 Thread Albert van der Horst
In article , Kevin Walzer wrote: >On 6/11/12 8:01 AM, Wolfgang Keller wrote: >> Tkinter is imho honestly the very best "argument" if you want to make >> potential new users turn their backs away from Python for good. Just >> show them one GUI implemented with it and, hey, wait, where are you >> r

Re: Pythonic cross-platform GUI desingers à la Interface Builder (Re: what gui designer is everyone using)

2012-06-16 Thread Wolfgang Keller
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:59:23 -0700 (PDT) CM wrote: > On Jun 14, 2:25 pm, Wolfgang Keller wrote: > > > > What is needed for domain specialists are frameworks and related > > tools such as GUI builders that allow them to write exclusively the > > domain-specific code (this is where a domain speci

Re: Pythonic cross-platform GUI desingers à la Interface Builder (Re: what gui designer is everyone using)

2012-06-14 Thread CM
On Jun 14, 2:25 pm, Wolfgang Keller wrote: > > What is needed for domain specialists are frameworks and related tools > such as GUI builders that allow them to write exclusively the > domain-specific code (this is where a domain specialist will always be > better than any software developer), lay

Re: Pythonic cross-platform GUI desingers à la Interface Builder (Re: what gui designer is everyone using)

2012-06-14 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> > None of these were such that I could propagate it as GUI development > > tool for non-programmers / casual users. > > Sure, some are good for designing the GUI, but at the point where > > the user code is to be added, most people would be lost. > > There was a time when that was a highly adver

Re: Pythonic cross-platform GUI desingers à la Interface Builder (Re: what gui designer is everyone using)

2012-06-13 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> > Tkinter is imho honestly the very best "argument" if you want to > > make potential new users turn their backs away from Python for > > good. Just show them one GUI implemented with it and, hey, wait, > > where are you running to... > > Yes, Tkinter GUI's are very ugly. > > http://www.codebyk

Re: Pythonic cross-platform GUI desingers à la Interface Builder (Re: what gui designer is everyone using)

2012-06-11 Thread Rick Johnson
On Jun 11, 9:09 am, Mark Roseman wrote: > Second, there does exist at least one fairly good source of > documentation for new users wishing to do exactly this (according to > many, many comments I have received), though that documentation is > admittedly buried in a sea of out-of-date informatio

Re: Pythonic cross-platform GUI desingers à la Interface Builder (Re: what gui designer is everyone using)

2012-06-11 Thread Rick Johnson
On Jun 10, 11:05 pm, rusi wrote: > If python is really a "language maven's" language then it does not do > very well: > - its not as object-oriented as Ruby (or other arcana like Eiffel) if it were object-oreiented as Ruby, then why not use Ruby? > - its not as functional as Haskell if it were

Re: Pythonic cross-platform GUI desingers à la Interface Builder (Re: what gui designer is everyone using)

2012-06-11 Thread Dietmar Schwertberger
Am 11.06.2012 16:09, schrieb Mark Roseman: > On the Tkinter front, I just want to reiterate two important points that > are not nearly as well known as they should be. > > First, it is possible and in fact easy to do decent looking GUI's in > Tkinter, with the caveat that you do in fact have to do

Re: Pythonic cross-platform GUI desingers à la Interface Builder (Re: what gui designer is everyone using)

2012-06-11 Thread Dietmar Schwertberger
Am 11.06.2012 06:05, schrieb rusi: If python is really a "language maven's" language then it does not do very well: - its not as object-oriented as Ruby (or other arcana like Eiffel) - its not as functional as Haskell - its not as integrable as Lua - its not as close-to-bare-metal as C - etc Dep

Re: Pythonic cross-platform GUI desingers à la Interface Builder (Re: what gui designer is everyone using)

2012-06-11 Thread Anssi Saari
Wolfgang Keller writes: > This whole cycle of "design GUI"->"generate code"->add own code to > generated code"->"run application with GUI" has always seemed very > un-pythonic to me. A dynamic, interpreted language should allow to work > in a more "lively", "direct" way to build a GUI. What abou

Re: Pythonic cross-platform GUI desingers à la Interface Builder (Re: what gui designer is everyone using)

2012-06-11 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 11/06/2012 13:47, Kevin Walzer wrote: Yes, Tkinter GUI's are very ugly. http://www.codebykevin.com/phynchronicity-running.png http://www.codebykevin.com/quickwho-main.png At last we're getting to the crux of the matter. Provided that the GUI is pretty who cares about picking appropriate

Re: Pythonic cross-platform GUI desingers à la Interface Builder (Re: what gui designer is everyone using)

2012-06-11 Thread Kevin Walzer
On 6/11/12 8:01 AM, Wolfgang Keller wrote: Tkinter is imho honestly the very best "argument" if you want to make potential new users turn their backs away from Python for good. Just show them one GUI implemented with it and, hey, wait, where are you running to... Yes, Tkinter GUI's are very ugl

Re: Pythonic cross-platform GUI desingers à la Interface Builder (Re: what gui designer is everyone using)

2012-06-11 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> > What "GUI designer" would come the closest to the way that Cocoa's > > Interface Builder works? I.e. is there any one (cross-platform) that > > allows to actually "connect" the GUI created directly to the code > > and make it available "live" in an IDE? > > If you're developing on the Mac, PyO

Re: Pythonic cross-platform GUI desingers à la Interface Builder (Re: what gui designer is everyone using)

2012-06-11 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> > What "GUI designer" would come the closest to the way that Cocoa's > > Interface Builder works? I.e. is there any one (cross-platform) that > > allows to actually "connect" the GUI created directly to the code > > and make it available "live" in an IDE? > > > > This whole cycle of "design GUI"-

Re: Pythonic cross-platform GUI desingers à la Interface Builder (Re: what gui designer is everyone using)

2012-06-10 Thread rusi
On Jun 10, 4:52 pm, Dietmar Schwertberger wrote: > Am 10.06.2012 08:16, schrieb rusi:> This is worth a read in this > context:http://osteele.com/archives/2004/11/ides > > > I've read the article. It presents some nice ideas, but probably the > author has not used Python before. > Otherwise he w

Re: Pythonic cross-platform GUI desingers à la Interface Builder (Re: what gui designer is everyone using)

2012-06-10 Thread Rick Johnson
On Jun 10, 2:36 pm, Rick Johnson wrote: > # > # Or become a pro and create reusable objects! > # > class LE(tk.Frame): >     def __init__(self, master, **kw): >         tk.Frame.__init__(self, master) >         self.l = tk.Label(self, **kw) >         self.l.pack(side=LEFT) >    

Re: Pythonic cross-platform GUI desingers à la Interface Builder (Re: what gui designer is everyone using)

2012-06-10 Thread Dietmar Schwertberger
Am 10.06.2012 21:36, schrieb Rick Johnson: It is possible. Try Tkinter for the "get-you-from-a-to-b" solution, or, wxPython if you like fog lamps, heated seats, and navigation systems. I prefer wx or Qt. The look and feel is one reason. But the fact that Tkinter is still the standard GUI toolki

Re: Pythonic cross-platform GUI desingers à la Interface Builder (Re: what gui designer is everyone using)

2012-06-10 Thread Rick Johnson
On Jun 9, 8:25 am, Dietmar Schwertberger wrote: > Before anyone now writes "Good GUIs are coded by hand": > I agree, but for many purposes only simple GUIs are required > and it should be possible to create these without studying manuals > (on toolkit and GUI editor). It is possible. Try Tkinte

Re: Pythonic cross-platform GUI desingers à la Interface Builder (Re: what gui designer is everyone using)

2012-06-10 Thread Kevin Walzer
On 6/8/12 8:27 AM, Wolfgang Keller wrote: What "GUI designer" would come the closest to the way that Cocoa's Interface Builder works? I.e. is there any one (cross-platform) that allows to actually "connect" the GUI created directly to the code and make it available "live" in an IDE? If you're d

Re: Pythonic cross-platform GUI desingers à la Interface Builder (Re: what gui designer is everyone using)

2012-06-09 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Dietmar Schwertberger wrote: > ... for many purposes only simple GUIs are required > and it should be possible to create these without studying manuals > (on toolkit and GUI editor). > A typical simple GUI would e.g. be for a measurement / data aquisition > program