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From: Wolfgang Keller <feliphil@gmx.net>
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> Well, I usually use the Qt Designer and it does work well for me.
> 
> It generates a .ui file with it which has to be passed to pyuic to
> generate the actual Python code 

Wow.

Even one more step than with code generation directly from
the GUI builder.

Clumsy, tedious, static.

Cocoa's Interface Builder shows how to do it even though Objective-C is
a *compiled* language, unlike Python.

Sincerely,

Wolfgang