On 12 fév, 15:59, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 9 fév, 14:06, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>> will explain the rest > >>> Delphi is a (dying) proprietary, MS-Windows-only[1] software relying > >>> on a low-level language. > >> Well it may be dying, > >> but for the moment it beats Python with a factor of 10, > >> when it comes to user (the majority of PC users) friendly GUI ;-) > > > Would you mind explaining yourself and backing your above assertion ? > > Like, ie, on which points does Delphi "beats" Python wrt/ GUIs, what > > special magic would make so that GUIs designed with Delphi would be > > more "user-friendly", and where does this "factor 10" comes from ? > > Maybe I should have written it in quotes "factor of 10" ;-) > But here are a few points > - in Delphi the GUI design itself is done in a graphical environment,
Ever heard of Glade, wxGlade, QTDesigner etc ? Please stop confusing language, GUI Toolkit, and GUI Designer... > making it much easier and faster making it much easier to get a quick prototype. Then, hacking the source may become *much* more "easy and faster"... (my experience with other windows clickodromes). > - auto-scaling of components on a form is very easy (so if the user changes > form size ..) And ? > - even making everything on a form movable by the end-user is just 1 > mouse-click I wouldn't like to make "everything movable by the end-user"... > - using the designers style, or the user style is just 1 click > - very good feedback, so creating interactive graphs is very easy, > cross-hair, slopes, region of > interest etc. > - a very huge collection of controls is standard available > - print / clipboard / export to almost any graphical file format, just 1 line > of code > > but to be honest ... > ... I never even tried to write a GUI in Python, ... Seems quite obvious. > ... just looked at others examples, > ... and still not seen what I can perform in Delphi ;-) IOW, you assert things just based on your experience with Delphi and your lack of experience with any of the major GUI toolkits availables from Python. To be true, I don't know if any of these toolkits (GTK, wxWindows, QT) and their GUIDesigners have the features you like in Delphi. What I know is that: 1/ these three toolkits have everything *needed* to write serious GUI apps 2/ they are all (more or less) portable 3/ the first two are free software 4/ they are all (more or less) language-independant So talking about GUIs, I think we're really far from "a factor of 10". It may be possible that Delphi has a better GUI *designer* than some other GUI toolkits, but that's far from being a major concern as far a I'm concerned - I wouldn't choose my tools based only on this consideration. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
