[Pythonmac-SIG] Creating Application()

[beau]

can anyone recommend some tutorials for Cocoa ObjectiveC?

basically I'm trying to great a gui program that reads a file and then
displays a visualization of it, with a slide.

so everytime the ui will be different

with Tkinter that was easy just write a function that packs things to
the screen.

ex:
for item in list:
  Label(scrollfrawm(), text= item).grid(row=rows, column=0, sticky=W)
  rows += 1


On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban at fiee.net> wrote:
> Am 2008-08-24 um 23:28 schrieb Jack Jansen:
>
>>> I'm not a complete newbie in python, but in building GUIs. I've worked
>>> around a bit with Tkinter and I think, I can handle this one, but I also
>>> tried to work with the "FrameWork" module, to create Menubars and this
>>> kind
>>> of stuff. But I did not even get a Application() object createt. Could
>>> anyone please post a simple code example, that creates a Application()
>>> Object and a Menuitem or something like this?
>>
>> Unless you have a very good reason to use FrameWork (and it appears you
>> don't, as you're just starting): stay away from FrameWork. It is almost 15
>> years old (originally written by Guido himself), uses MacOS9 APIs that are
>> likely to disappear some time soon and hasn't been maintained in 7 years or
>> so (I know, I was the last maintainer).
>>
>> If you want to try something new for GUI development: look at
>> Cocoa/PyObjC. It is completely unlike anything else and the learning curve
>> can be pretty steep when you come from another GUI toolkit, but that's
>> mainly because you have to un-learn a lot of things. A Cocoa GUI almost
>> writes itself. I always have the feeling that I've somehow cheated when I'm
>> done: the GUI works, but I don't remember actually writing any code:-)
>
> Do you think Cocoa is really usable without understanding a bit of ObjC?
>
> I'd suggest trying wxPython, preferably via dabo (see dabodev.com);
> unfortunately the documentation isn't that good, but the developers are
> really helpful.
>
> I agree that Cocoa is probably better, if you target OSX only.
>
>
> Greetlings from Lake Constance!
> Hraban
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