Good Looking UI for a stand alone application

[tleeuwenburg at gmail.com]

You could write it as a web app, with an executable which launches the
server and points a browser at it.

Python GUI work is a bit of a drag, really. One of the worst things
about it, IMHO.

-T


Vincent Delporte wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:23:10 +0100, Christophe Cavalaria
> <chris.cavalaria at free.fr> wrote:
> >They use QT. Back to read the first part of your post.
>
> It doesn't make much difference:
> - QT is big, so even small apps carry a lot of baggage
> - by not using the native widgets, you're dependent on that layer to
> keep up with changes in the look & feel of the platform (eg. XP's
> widgets that look different from previous widgets).
>
> Bottom line: GUI apps are better off extracting the maximum amount of
> logic into OS-agnostic code, and then rewrite the GUI for each
> platform.
>
> Even better: Considering that Windows has a 95% market share, make
> doubly-sure that it makes financial sense to provide a cross-platform
> GUI application (the server can be written in text mode, and can then
> be available for multiple OS's with no major problem).