Steve Holden wrote: > I've been trying to use wxGlade recently and I am finding it something > of a challenge. Is there any user who finds the user interface > satisfactory and the operation of the program predictable?
Good (for me) that you posted this question, as I got to know about wxGlade (also the others mentioned like Dabo, which I'm gonna check out) - I might not have heard of it otherwise :-) Tried it out (wxGlade) yesterday after reading your post. Results: I could get it to run, no problem. Tried Alberto's tutorial that builds the GUI for a tabbed notebook with a menu. Worked mostly fine. One problem I had was that it is an SDI app (Single Document Interface - Windows term) and, maybe due to that, the (preview of the) frame you're designing sometimes gets hidden under the other windows (the main wxGlade window, the Properties window, the GUI widgets tree, etc.) so I sometimes had to fiddle around with the mouse to uncover it. Or it could have been due to my monitor's resolution. I have wxPython 2.6 installed on my (Windows) machine, so had to change the default code generation from 2.8 to 2.6. After that I could run the generated code. I used the option to generate each class in a separate file. The generated code was quite readable - I could understand it easily. Having the tree of widgets shown in one window is a plus point - it helps you to visualize the structure / nesting of the widgets in your app. Another slight problem was that, though I had sized the main frame to occupy the whole screen (while in design mode), when I ran the generated code, the main frame was partially outside the screen. Possibly this again was due to my monitor - getting GUI apps to display correctly on differing target monitors is challenging ... That was all I've tried so far, but I think even that much is of some help, at least - it should save some time with designing one's GUI. I plan to try it out some more. My 2 cents ... Vasudev Ram http://www.dancingbison.com http://sourceforge.net/projects/xtopdf http://jugad.livejournal.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
