workaround for generating gui tools

Diez B. Roggisch deetsNOSPAM at web.de
Sat Apr 9 13:59:18 EDT 2005


> why use data files when you have an extremely powerful programming
> language in your toolbox?  the advantage of building UI's in Python is
> that you can quickly create "domain specific UI languages", and use them
> to generate the interfaces for you.  UI editors may be useful for trivial
> applications, but if you're doing complex stuff, you sure want domain-
> specific abstractions.  Python gives you that, XML files don't.

If you do some creative rearranging of widgets and play around with
different layouts and geometry managers, a good gui-designer becomes very
useful.
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Regards,

Diez B. Roggisch



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