Fast and easy GUI prototyping with Python

Fuzzyman fuzzyman at gmail.com
Sat Jun 21 18:02:06 EDT 2008


On Jun 21, 6:15 pm, ero... at gmail.com wrote:
> Thanks for your input. The prototype will be running on Windows only.
> Portability  and being able to develop on other platforms would be a
> bonus, but is not a requirement. I guess the choice is going to be
> between Visual Studio and Qt. Of importance is:
>
> 1) Being able to develop and change (dummy) GUI prototypes very fast,
> i.e. drag and drop. I've tried Visual Studio's form designer -- it
> seems quite capable. Don't know about Qt's designer -- is it as easy
> and fast to use?
>
> 2) The Qt vs. .NET API. I have no experience with Qt's API and a
> rudimentary experience with the .NET API (seems powerfull but also big
> and complex).
>
> Michael: Interesting suggestion to just subclass C#, maybe that's the
> way to go.

I found the Windows Forms APIs pretty straightforward. You can get a
good introduction to the .NET APIs from "IronPython in Action". ;-)

Michael Foord
http://www.ironpythoninaction.com/



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