On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Dietmar Schwertberger <n...@schwertberger.de> wrote: > None of these were such that I could propagate it as GUI development > tool for non-programmers / casual users. > Sure, some are good for designing the GUI, but at the point where > the user code is to be added, most people would be lost.
There was a time when that was a highly advertisable feature - "build XYZ applications without writing a single line of code!". I've seen it in database front-end builders as well as GUI tools, same thing. But those sorts of tools tend not to be what experts want to use. You end up having to un-learn the "easy way" before you learn the "hard way" that lets you do everything. You refer to "non-programmers" and then point out that they would be lost trying to add code. That's a natural consequence of not being a programmer, and of all languages to help someone bridge that gap and start coding, I would say Python is, if not the absolute best, certainly up there somewhere. Just as you wouldn't expect a music authoring program to let someone publish score without knowing how to compose music, you can't expect a GUI tool to relieve you of the need to write code. WYSIWYG UI designers suffer badly from a need to guess _why_ the human did what s/he did. Build your UI manually, and there's no guesswork - you explicitly _tell_ the computer what to do and why. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
