On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 04:16 -0700, ant wrote: > Since I started this thread, I feel a sense of responsibility for it, > in some bizarre way.
I'm glad you brought this GUI subject up. I've enjoyed reading everyones thoughts on this subject. > Most people who have used a GUI have some investment in it. So > arguments about which one is best tend to be > partial and not wonderfully constructive. I'm just frustrated at the moment since I don't know which one to choose. Looks like there's a lot of choices and I need to spend a lot of time testing each of them out - and each has it's own learning curve. > But whenever I > write a program that someone else is going to use, it has to have a > GUI. Is that not true for most people? I would agree. When writing code for my customers, they want a very intuitive and simple application. GUI is perfect for this instead of having to include flags and path strings in the command-line. > However many people have neither the time or the > expertise to decide, and the experience of choosing the wrong one is > a real turn-off. Yeah, I definitely agree! > That, in my opinion, is where a replacement for Tkinter should be > aimed: the beginning graphics programmer. > But if it is built on the right foundation (which Tkinter seems not > to be), it could be extended to cover > far more useful cases than Tkinter can. I haven't been able to test pyGUI just yet. From reading about it, it looks pretty hopeful. I need to install an earlier OS X version since I can't seem to get it to work on Snow Leopard. Jay -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
