Python GUI button placer?

[Cameron Laird]

In article <Xd7t5.10238$rG4.261428 at typhoon1.ba-dsg.net>,
Dudek7 <Dudek7 at mailroom.com> wrote:
>HAs anyone ever heard of a gui button placer instead of trial and error by
>placing buttons with the use of code?
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A GUI "builder", or "designer"?  I always thought of *those*
as "trial and error", as opposed to scripted placement ...

In any case, yes, I understand the question, and, yes, there
are several.  From your other recent posting, I take it you're
working with Tkinter.  Consider John Grayson's book on the
subject; you'll have happier results than if you struggle to
learn Tkinter without the book.

GUI builders for Tkinter go by names like SpecTcl, Visual Tcl,
and XF <URL:http://www.hobbs.wservice.com/tcl/faqs/tk/tkfaq.html>.
They're nice applications, and you might like them.

However, it's hard to recommend them.  As slick as they are in
operation, they're hard for newcomers to install.  I hope some-
one will write in to contradict me.  That's the best I know,
though.

As fond as I am of Tkinter, I recognize you might be more
comfortable with a different Python GUI binding.  Look into
PyQt
<URL:http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-05-2000/swol-05-qt.html>
It's a fine development environment, and Phil is just in the
process of releasing a Python-savvy form of Qt Designer, which
I suspect you will like a lot.
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