On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Dietmar Schwertberger <n...@schwertberger.de> wrote: > ... for many purposes only simple GUIs are required > and it should be possible to create these without studying manuals > (on toolkit and GUI editor). > A typical simple GUI would e.g. be for a measurement / data aquisition > program, where you just need some buttons and fields. > > > If you have not used VB before, you should just try it. You can create > GUIs within a few minutes even if you haven't used it before. > (Sure, the fact that anyone can use it has the side effect that most > of these GUIs are not good...)
There's an assumption in most of the Windows world that everything needs a GUI. For a simple data acquisition program, I wouldn't use one - I'd have it run in a console. That's something that any programmer should be able to create without studying complex manuals; all you need to know is the basics of I/O and possibly argument parsing. I've used Visual Basic. My first salaried work was on VB. Making it easy to throw together a simple GUI doesn't mean a thing when you have a large project to write - your business logic and UI design work will massively dwarf the effort of actually throwing widgets into a hierarchy. So the only time it's going to be an issue is with trivial programs; which means there isn't much to be saved. Just make your trivial things run in a console, and then either use a GUI builder (several have been mentioned) or hand-write your UI code. Actually, there's a third option these days. Give it no console and no GUI, make it respond to HTTP connections, and use a web browser as your UI. :) ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
