Boa vs. PythonCard

[Iwan van der Kleyn]

Thomas Guettler wrote:
> Up to now I mostly programmened commandline tools.
> But unfortunately you sometimes need GUIs.
> I looked around and found Boa and PythonCard. Can someone
> compare these two programms? How stable are they?

I posted a related question on this list a few days ago, unfortunately 
without an answer. I've been testing Boa Constructor for a few days and 
   consider it to be 'stable enough' for small(ler) programs. That is 
the version straight from CVS, not one of the downloads on sourceforge. 
Can't  give an opinion about really big projects, though. Boa 
COnsutrctor is remarkable feature complete, has sparse but good enough 
documentation and forms a complete IDE (including editor, CVS, debugger 
etc). I made a demo consisting of a few windows with multiple widgets 
and events and everything worked rather smoothly. The application 
crashed on me once but by saving often that's tolerable to me. There are 
still quirks and bugs but most will just show an exception in a window 
and the application keeps on working. On Linux there seem to be more 
glitches (open/save file dialog especially) but on Windows things worked 
quite well. For me it  a 'killer app' beause it makes working with 
wxPython so much easier so I decided to do my future work with Python on 
it. It may not be really 'production ready' but the advantages of using 
it far outweigh a crash or two.

I've tested Pythoncard a bit. Seems promising but it is far from usable 
for real production work as yet.

Regards,

Iwan