Tkinter vs wxPython

[Steve Holden]

Alejandro Weinstein wrote:

>>Sure wxGlade/Boa/etc can help speed design and layout up, but what
>>happens when you want to do non standard things or just get stuck
>>because some thing just isn't working.
> 
> 
> Then you add the necesary hand crafted code to the automatic 
> generated code. At least is what I did when I needed.

I've tried a number of these tools, including BlackAdder, wxDesigner, 
wxGlade and BoaConstructor. I even paid money for some of them. They all 
have their problems, and I keep coming back to good old PythonCard. It's 
kinda clunky (though I have most experience with the 0.7 prototype, and 
the newer releases are improving), but it's definitely the most usable 
of all the ones I've tried. Dammit, you can actually *do stuff* with it 
rather than spend all your time fighting the tool.

The only complaint I have is the need to add components from a menu 
rather than a tool, but I patched 0.7 to fix that, and I believe it will 
be possible to patch the 0.8 series to operate the same way.

Whether I'll ever persuade Kevin Altis to include the patch in a live 
release is, of course, a question for another day :-)

regards
  Steve
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