Alejandro Weinstein wrote:
Sure wxGlade/Boa/etc can help speed design and layout up, but what happens when you want to do non standard things or just get stuck because some thing just isn't working.
Then you add the necesary hand crafted code to the automatic generated code. At least is what I did when I needed.
I've tried a number of these tools, including BlackAdder, wxDesigner, wxGlade and BoaConstructor. I even paid money for some of them. They all have their problems, and I keep coming back to good old PythonCard. It's kinda clunky (though I have most experience with the 0.7 prototype, and the newer releases are improving), but it's definitely the most usable of all the ones I've tried. Dammit, you can actually *do stuff* with it rather than spend all your time fighting the tool.
The only complaint I have is the need to add components from a menu rather than a tool, but I patched 0.7 to fix that, and I believe it will be possible to patch the 0.8 series to operate the same way.
Whether I'll ever persuade Kevin Altis to include the patch in a live release is, of course, a question for another day :-)
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