Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!NAXS.COM-a2kHrUvQQWlmc!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Python Card alternatives? From: rzed Message-ID: User-Agent: Xnews/5.04.25 X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetserver.com Organization: UseNetServer.com Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 13:07:27 +0000 Lines: 17 X-Trace: 94aaf4df3688fe56e3eb420278 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:7448 Desktop apps don't seem to be the wave of the future, but they still serve a useful purpose today. They can be ideal for a quick database table management screen, or a data entry front end for a program with a bunch of parameters. It's not easy enough to build a quick utility with a GUI front end, though. Wax and PythonCard (and maybe others) tried to hit that niche, but development on both is spotty at best. Some claim that Dabo's gui builder is a good one for this purpose, and maybe it can be. Are there any other, better solutions? I've been looking at Rebol lately, and it has some points of interest. I much prefer Python as a language, but Rebol View's layout specifications are wonderfully concise, and the support code seems to be fairly straightforward as well. Has anyone tried to mimic their approach in Python? -- rzed