Still Loving Python

[Steve Holden]

Alex Martelli wrote:
> Jérôme Laheurte <fraca7 at free.fr> wrote:
>    ...
> 
>>Sorry for the harsh tone, I just think GUI builders are *evil*. Except
>>maybe for QT Designer, which has a nice model where you implement
>>callbacks by subclassing the generated classes. At least you don't have to
>>look at the generated code.
> 
> 
> Try Interface Builder on a Mac: it builds interfaces as _data_ files,
> not "generated code".  You can then use the same UI from Objective C,
> Java, Python (w/PyObjC), AppleScript... interface-painters which
> generate code are a really bad idea.  (I'm sure Apple's IB is not the
> only interface-painter which encodes the UI as a datafile, easily
> interpreted at startup by a suitable library for whatever language
> you're using to flesh it out -- it's such an obviously RIGHT idea!).
> 
You're right. For example wxDesigner will produce XML, as well as 
writing wxWidgets calls directly in Python, Perl or C++.

regards
  Steve
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