Python for professsional Windows GUI apps?

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On 26 ago, 05:29, erikj <tw55... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You could have a look at Camelot, to see if it fits
> your needs :http://www.conceptive.be/projects/camelot/
>
> it was developed with cross platform business apps in
> mind.  when developing Camelot, we tried to build it using
> wxWidgets first (because of the licensing at that time),
> but it turned out that developing with QT proved to be
> much more straightforward.  QT is documented very well
> and you seldom encounter 'strange' issues that cost hours
> of time to pinpoint and fix.
>
> the datagrid was developed to be able to handle millions
> of database records without glitches and is flexible thanks
> to QT's model-view-delegate framework.
>
> we do print barcodes with this app (even directly to
> zebra printers)
>
> if you have questions regarding Camelot, please feel free
> to post on our mailing list :http://groups.google.com/group/project-camelot
>
> Regards,
>
> Erik
>
> On Aug 24, 2:08 pm, Gilles Ganault <nos... at nospam.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hello
>
> >         I was wondering if some people in this ng use Python and someGUI
> > toolkit (PyWin32, wxWidgets, QT, etc.) to build professional
> > applications, and if yes, what it's like, the pros and cons, etc.
>
> > I'm especially concerned about the lack of controls, the lack of
> > updates (lots of controls in wxWidgets are 1.0 deadware), and problems
> > linked to how to update users' PC remotely when I build a new version
> > using eg. Py2exe.
>
> > I need controls for business apps like access to databases, good data
> > grid, printing reports (with or without barcodes), etc.
>
> > Thank you.

Looks interesting, but I wonder if I can use Camelot without its ORM.
I feel that ORMs make easy things easier, but complex things much
harder...
Can I use it with plain old sql?

Luis