Graphical User Interface application
Mitchell Morris
mmorris at mindspring.com
Wed May 24 01:45:39 EDT 2000
jilanik at tin.it (Jilani Khaldi) wrote in
<MBEGIENDECAECJGNLHGGKEHNCAAA.jilanik at tin.it>:
>Hi All,
>I wonder if it is possible to write graphical user interface applications
>using Python, like in VB? If yes, what do I need then?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Jilani
>
>
I see many people have answered one possible interpretation of your
question, but have neglected that you may be asking something else
entirely. That said, I'll step up to the plate: I am aware of no tool that
does everything for Python that VB does for BASIC. That is, you can find
drag-and-drop editors for GUI component layout with Python as a target
language, Python-aware editors including some lovely folding ones, and
there might even be "property sheet" add-ons somewhere. Unfortunately,
nobody has integrated all those parts into a single unified IDE.
The more I think about it, however, the more I wish I was wrong, as that
would be the bee's knees. I've given this a teeny little bit of thought,
and have come to the conclusion that the hardest part would be integrating
the Python core into said editor so you could run your program, pause it
mid-stream, edit some stuff, and resume execution. It's probably trivial
for guys smarter than me (and there's plenty of those), but that's where I
stumble.
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