Yet another GUI toolkit question...

[Kevin Walzer]

Peter Decker wrote:
> On 2/10/06, Kevin Walzer <sw at wordtech-software.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'm undertaking my first semi-substantial Python GUI application after a
>> long time dabbling with the language.
>>
> ...
>> So: my question is, would it be more productive for me to wrestle with
>> these extensions when there doesn't seem to be much constituency for
>> their use, or would it be better/faster/more efficient for me to start
>> scaling the wxPython mountain?
> 
> If you're going cross-platform, then wxPython is the toolkit to use.
> It looks and works correctly on all platforms.
> 
> I worked with wxPython for a couple of years, and constantly struggled
> with the ugle, C++ style syntax, and then discovered Dabo. Dabo is a
> full 3-tier application framework, and its UI tier wraps wxPython. So
> while you're using wxPython when you use dabo.ui, you're writing
> clean, Pythonic code. I found that after playing around with Dabo for
> a little bit, I could write apps that worked without constantly going
> to the docs to look up some obscure constant or event name. The
> authors are also extremely helpful, so if write your app using Dabo,
> I'm sure that you'll have tons of support.
> 
> http://dabodev.com
> 
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> 
> # p.d.

Dabo looks interesting, but isn't it mainly for database applications?
Has any other kind of application been developed with it? Also, it seems
very Windows/Linux-centric. Is anyone using it on OS X?

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