On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 13:53:15 +0000, Gregor Horvath wrote: > OK. Then please schow me, how you can create a complex form with grids, > explorer like trees etc. in 2 minutes in standard python. > > Or make any given standard python object accessible from MS Excel in 2 > minutes.
Boa, gtkglade, or, I forget what the equivalent is for QT but I'm pretty sure it has one. Of course, I never use them because I find static forms anathema, and I build my forms dynamically from metadata; more flexible, more powerful, ultimately more maintainable. (I have *never* experienced the "Oh ****, I have to change 25 forms in 5 minutes for the demo!" moment; I've only heard about the horrors of programs with umpteen hundreds of distinct static forms second hand.) Try *that* in VB. It can be done, but you lose so fast it isn't even funny. One of the Facts of Life is that a sufficient quantitative change *becomes* a qualitative change. Python makes enough things easier that you do things that you'd never even imagine in VB. I speak of VB 6, but knowing the language I'd still expect VB to be about the worst .Net language to work in. BASIC bears only surface resemblance to the BASIC of 30+ years ago but the philosophy hasn't changed. Static forms are only a win if you need a program cranked out by one programmer in less than a week; sadly, BASIC makes everything else so hard that few people have realized this... but they have paid for it. Yes sir, you always pay the piper. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
