On Saturday, 27 February 2016 18:08:36 UTC+2, Dietmar Schwertberger wrote: > On 27.02.2016 12:18, wrong.addres...@gmail.com wrote: > > Isn't there any good GUI IDE like Visual Basic? I hope there are some less > > well known GUI IDEs which I did not come across. Thanks. > > As of today, there's no Python GUI builder comparable to VB 6. >
Thanks for stating this clearly. Everyone here has been trying to show me various ways to do the kind of things I will want to, but nobody clearly admits the limitations I will have to accept if I start with Python. I am starting to wonder if VB.net would be a better solution for the time being. I have learnt enough VB.net to manage my work but it is bloated and Microsoft dependent. > There are some like QtDesigner or wxGlade, but they either don't > generate Python code directly or they can only be used if you know the > underlying toolkit good enough to create the GUI yourself. You may try > out some, but I can almost guarantee you that you will come to the same > result. > If you want a GUI, create it yourself using either wxPython or PyQt. I will check it. I got the impression that you can create a GUI but that has to be converted to Python, and then you need a wrapper to put these forms in, and then they can be compiled or converted to *.exe with py2exe. Not a good way for development/debugging. > > For engineering applications that's probably the weakest point that > Python has. > It's holding back a lot of people... > > Well, for most measurement or control software a GUI is not really > needed, but still people want it. > In the 1980s everyone was happy with inputs from the command line on a line editor, but today people expect GUIs with graphics and often even animations. It is surprising that a language which seems very popular does not have GUI development infrastructure in place these many years after it got into common use. > > Regards, > > Dietmar -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
