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Subject: Re: Python Card alternatives?
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On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 13:07 +0000, rzed wrote:
> 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, 

+1, they are perfect for that, and will be around for a *long* *long*
time.  And I doubt they will ever go away - the web app will change to
be more desktopish.  Gtk already has an experimental HTML canvas
backend, GNOME3 is a canvas controlled via JavaScript, etc...

> 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?

My advice is to keep it simple.  Gtk/Glade works perfectly well for this
purpose.  The glue code required is trivial.