Mr. Roboto wrote: > Phillipe: Actually, it's not performance of the core app that concerns > me. I'm thinking more about UI/form *design* productivity. I've done > a lot of Access work over the years and while the stand-alone VB form > designer isn't quite as thorough, it's still one of the slickest out > there. Unfortunately, there's no designer for PyWin and wxPython's > XRC is nice but not in the same league as what can be done w/ Delphi > or VB. Yes, I'm aware that wxWidgets has a real form designer, but > that's yet another story, for another day. > > Making XRC into a more fully-featured tool (more on par w/ the > aforementioned) is a way nice project unto itself, but not right now. > However, the desk accessory I've mentioned is an excellent 1st step > towards *possibly* doing something much bigger.... > > Philippe Martin wrote: >> Do you have major performances issues ? why not write everything in >> Python/WxPython ? >> >> >> I used to write my applications in VB6 with python com objects ... and >> decided there was no gain there. >> >> Regards, >> >> Philippe
I personally _really_ like wxDesigner (http://www.roebling.de/) and as under VB6, I always avoided having the tables filled for me (bound forms if I recall) I have not found my productivity go down ... but then again, I never was a VB expert. 1) As others have said, it is very easy to make a Python com object (thank you Mark!) - and as long as Windows keeps supporting COM .... 2) I chose the COM option 3) If your script does not handle exceptions, you'll have a fairly cryptic VB dialog box telling you about your python com object unhapiness - I find it more easy to handle the expections in the script 4) Yes it takes space - I have an application that uses Python, wxPython, Gadfly, pyserial, HTMLGen ..... and the whole thing takes 120M I used visual studio to buld a single install for everything- works well. The one open issue I have about wxPython in a com object is how the main event loop (in your core application) will react if a com object with GUI pops-up ... never tried it. Regards, Philippe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
