Newbie Question

[Uwe Grauer]

Stef Mientki wrote:
> bruno.desthuilliers at gmail.com wrote:
>> On 9 fév, 14:06, Stef Mientki <S.Mientki-nos... at mailbox.kun.nl> wrote:
>>>>> will explain the rest
>>>> Delphi is a (dying) proprietary, MS-Windows-only[1] software relying
>>>> on a low-level language.
>>> Well it may be dying,
>>> but for the moment it beats Python with a factor of 10,
>>> when it comes to user (the majority of PC users) friendly GUI ;-)
>>
>> Would you mind explaining yourself and backing your above assertion ?
>> Like, ie, on which points does Delphi "beats" Python wrt/ GUIs, what
>> special magic would make so that GUIs designed with Delphi would be
>> more "user-friendly", and where does this "factor 10" comes from ?
>>
> Maybe I should have written it in quotes "factor of 10" ;-)
> But here are a few points
> - in Delphi the GUI design itself is done in a graphical environment,
> making it much easier and faster
> - auto-scaling of components on a form is very easy (so if the user
> changes form size ..)
> - even making everything on a form movable by the end-user is just 1
> mouse-click
> - using the designers style, or the user style is just 1 click
> - very good feedback, so creating interactive graphs is very easy,
> cross-hair, slopes, region of interest etc.
> - a very huge collection of controls is standard available
> - print / clipboard / export to almost any graphical file format, just 1
> line of code
> 
> but to be honest ...
> ... I never even tried to write a GUI in Python, ...
> ... just looked at others examples,
> ... and still not seen what I can perform in Delphi ;-)
> 
> cheers,
> Stef Mientki
> 
>> Good luck...
>>

There is dabo which is a tool on top of wxwidgets:
http://dabodev.com/

Uwe