[Tutor] Designing a Dialog in Python

[Alan Gauld]

"Wayne Watson" <sierra_mtnview at sbcglobal.net> wrote 

> Signature.htmlWhen I used VBasic many years ago, 
> it had the ability to design a dialog and then attach it 
> to the code. Is there something like this available for Python?

What I think you are looking for is a GUI design tool.
There are several for Python, some commercial some free.
In my experience none of them are anywhere near as good 
as the VB or Delphi ones. However SPE worked, and I 
know some folks have gotten Glade to work.
I think dabo might work too.

And if you are on a Mac you can use the standard XCode 
development tools to build a GUI and connect Python 
via the PyObjC bridge.

The bigger issue is that all of these tools are tied to GUI 
frameworks so you need to learn how to program using 
the framework first. wxPython or PyQt seem to be the 
most popular for GUI bulders but a few have modified 
the underlying framework to produce their own dialect. 
(I think dabo is an example)

However most Python programmers still seem to build 
their GUIs using vanilla code rather than a visual editor.
If you don't  need the visual design tools then you can 
design dialogs etc in your favourite editor and for that 
Tkinter/Tix come as standard.

HTH,

-- 
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld