is there really no good gui builder

Colin J. Williams cjw at ncf.ca
Mon Nov 10 11:27:31 EST 2008


Mike Driscoll wrote:
> On Nov 8, 1:35�pm, azrael <jura.gro... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> whoever I ask, everyone tells me when it come to python and GUI-s and
>> that there is the best way to use WX. I am browsing for the 10th time
>> during the last year and I can still not bealive that there is not one
>> project to make gui-building easy as maybe in VB for python. Each I
>> tried was a pain in the ass when it comes to usability. The only
>> descent one I've seen was Boa constructor, but also they have stoped
>> in developing. Please tell me that there is at least something
>> descent.
>> I am freaking out that I need 5 times more time to make a GUI in
>> python than in VB.
> 
> I normally don't recommend this, but you can use Visual Studio to
> create your GUI and then use IronPython to run it. Then you'll have
> the "best" of both worlds.

Yes, but you would probably need the 
version of Visual Studio (2003,
I believe) which is used for Python.

Is there any chance that Python could 
use the freely available of
Visual Studio?

> 
> I don't use IronPython that much, but I do like that. For the most
> part though, I just use wxPython.
> 
> Mike



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