Chelonian wrote: > Project: ambitious GUI program for Win/Mac/Linux. Target user: > average person. App to look elegant, and be intuitive, responsive, > exectuable, have its own icon, etc. Needs to store user info in large > database for the long term, run in the background and pop up at > assigned times. There are needs for graphing, data analysis, file > management, word processing, text processing, web synchronization, etc. > It would have to look like commercial software, though it may turn out > to be free open source. It's envisioned as a pretty tall order, thus > my wonder if I'm delusional in thinking I have any hope to accomplish > this. > This sounds very very interesting. A bit like the app *I* am envisioning/writing right now. :)
Can you elaborate a bit more on what kind of App this is supposed to be? I'm thinking that maybe if we share common goals, we might join forces. > Can Python *alone* produce something like what I've described? Or > would I have to have some parts written in C? Or is Python really not > best-suited to these needs? > Python is great. For everything. (except speed ;)) Look at chandler: Pure python, huge App. Slow though ;) WikidPad is another example (not as huge). UliPad as well. There must be more, I just don't know any off hand. > Is using SPE with wxGlade a good choice? What about Boa Constructor? > Lots of people use each of those. But if you really want a slick (not-so-standard) UI, ditch the UI designer and code it yourself. I have looked at SPE. Its fine. Just. Try. ALL. Then, and only then, shall you know. We can't tell you. > Is it something one person could do over the course of a year or so, > working say 10 hours a week on it? Or is this really out of reach of > anyone other than a hardcore programmer or even a team of them? > I don't know. I'm on my app for a 3/4 year now and all I have is a shabby UI and a basic, if clunky, database engine. Although I must say, I had hard drive crash and switched from wxPython to pyGTK to wxPython. I think it's always a bad idea to estimate how long it will take to do some computer related task (Note the generality of that statement.). Because the answer is in ALL cases: longer. > If I write it using Python 2.5 and wxPython, do I have to use py2app or > something to create an executable and necessary library files so it > will run on Mac? (Because of wxPython's libraries, which the Mac > won't have?). > No clue, sorry. bye wildemar -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
