python gui rant

Grant Edwards grante at visi.com
Wed Nov 13 11:33:26 EST 2002


In article <aqt734$r6j$0 at 216.39.172.122>, Bengt Richter wrote:

> Your mention of Delphi made me recall that you can right click on a gui form
> and select 'view as text' from the popup menu, and you get to see all the
> parameters that define your layout. E.g. a default form with one button dropped
> on it near the top left:
> 
> object Form1: TForm1
>   Left = 200
>   Top = 108
>   Width = 544
>   Height = 375
>   Caption = 'Form1'
[...]
>   object Button1: TButton
>     Left = 40
>     Top = 24
>     Width = 75
>     Height = 25
>     Caption = 'Button1'

<rant>

One warning: there is a very special place reserved in hell for
people who design GUI dialogs with hard-wired widget locations
so that the dialogs can't be resized.  One of the reasons I
really hate working with MS-Windows because of all the dialog
boxes that use 80% of the space in a dialog for useless crap,
and then show only four lines in a list-box containing 100+
elements.  A decent GUI would let you resize the dialog so you
could see more of the stuff in the list-box.  But not
MS-Windows....

</rant>

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