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On 2013-04-14 00:01, Wolfgang Keller wrote:
>> 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.

You don't have to use pyuic. You can load the .ui file directly from your program.

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

The workflow is about the same, really.

-- 
Robert Kern

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