Re: Is there a graphical GUI builder?

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Date	2013-02-20 09:43 +1100
Subject	Re: Is there a graphical GUI builder?
From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
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On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Rex Macey <xer0925@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm new to Python and only a hobbyist programmer.  A long time ago I used Microsoft's Visual Basic which had a nice (graphical) facility for creating GUIs which was part of the development environment.  I'm wondering if there's a utility for Python to build GUIs.  I see that there is TKinter, which is a scripting function to build GUIs. To be clear, I'm looking for a graphical interface to build GUIs. Thanks.

That way of building a window tends to produce programs that port
badly to other systems. Back in the 1990s, I used to build windows
that way (mainly using VX-REXX); playing with Java applets introduced
the novel and somewhat strange idea that your window should be built
using rules and layouts, to avoid problems with button sizes, fonts,
etc, etc. Today, cross-platform code is the norm, not a curiosity, so
this method of building up a window is correspondingly more plausible.
I strongly recommend it.

You have to think about your window differently - think about what
you're putting where, rather than going visually "that looks about
right" - but the reward is that it'll look right no matter where you
run your app. As an added bonus, you don't need any sort of graphical
builder; you can just write code directly in your editor.

ChrisA

Thread

Is there a graphical GUI builder? Rex Macey <xer0925@gmail.com> - 2013-02-19 14:19 -0800
  Re: Is there a graphical GUI builder? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-02-19 22:30 +0000
  Re: Is there a graphical GUI builder? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-02-19 15:39 -0700
  Re: Is there a graphical GUI builder? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-02-20 09:43 +1100
  Re: Is there a graphical GUI builder? Phil <phil_lor@bigpond.com> - 2013-02-20 08:59 +1000
  Re: Is there a graphical GUI builder? Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka@gmail.com> - 2013-02-19 15:44 -0800
  Re: Is there a graphical GUI builder? duncan smith <buzzard@invalid.invalid> - 2013-02-20 02:03 +0000
  Re: Is there a graphical GUI builder? Roland Koebler <r.koebler@yahoo.de> - 2013-02-20 03:53 +0100
  Re: Is there a graphical GUI builder? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-02-19 20:49 -0700
  Re: Is there a graphical GUI builder? Steve Simmons <square.steve@gmail.com> - 2013-02-20 08:44 +0100
  Re: Is there a graphical GUI builder? Roland Koebler <r.koebler@yahoo.de> - 2013-02-20 10:34 +0100
  Re: Is there a graphical GUI builder? Phil Thompson <phil@riverbankcomputing.com> - 2013-02-20 09:51 +0000
  Re: Is there a graphical GUI builder? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-02-20 20:52 +1100
  Re: Is there a graphical GUI builder? Roland Koebler <r.koebler@yahoo.de> - 2013-02-20 11:05 +0100
  Re: Is there a graphical GUI builder? Roland Koebler <r.koebler@yahoo.de> - 2013-02-20 11:42 +0100
  Re: Is there a graphical GUI builder? Phil Thompson <phil@riverbankcomputing.com> - 2013-02-20 11:19 +0000
  Re: Is there a graphical GUI builder? Roland Koebler <r.koebler@yahoo.de> - 2013-02-20 12:52 +0100
  Re: Is there a graphical GUI builder? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-02-20 23:14 +1100
  Re: Is there a graphical GUI builder? Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> - 2013-02-20 13:09 +0100
  Re: Is there a graphical GUI builder? Kevin Walzer <kw@codebykevin.com> - 2013-02-20 08:57 -0500
  Re: Is there a graphical GUI builder? Dietmar Schwertberger <maillist@schwertberger.de> - 2013-02-20 21:05 +0100
  Re: Is there a graphical GUI builder? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-02-20 20:45 -0700
  Re: Is there a graphical GUI builder? PythonAB <python@rgbaz.eu> - 2013-02-21 10:20 +0100
  Re: Is there a graphical GUI builder? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-02-21 21:08 +1100
  Re: Is there a graphical GUI builder? Steve Simmons <square.steve@gmail.com> - 2013-02-21 11:18 +0100
  Re: Is there a graphical GUI builder? Roland Koebler <r.koebler@yahoo.de> - 2013-02-21 11:37 +0100
  Re: Is there a graphical GUI builder? Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2013-02-21 11:25 +0000
  Re: Is there a graphical GUI builder? Roland Koebler <r.koebler@yahoo.de> - 2013-02-21 18:05 +0100
  Re: Is there a graphical GUI builder? Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2013-02-21 21:16 +0000

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