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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>A good Visual Designer for IronPython is hard to
find. I was looking for a better GUI designer. I was spoiled by the
VB6 designer, and found the graphics APIs in CPython to be a hassle. I
discovered IronPython and WPF and set out to test them. Visual Studio for
IronPython is not so good. I have so far settled happily on NetBeans
with IronPython and Visual Studio for C#. I generate great graphics in
XAML files in Visual Studio and Kazaml (I stay Pythonic and never
write C# code), read and parse the XAML files with IronPython code, and add
support code. I think M. Foord mentioned doing this somewhere on the
Web. I have experimented in this work mode to design with
difficulty a Python editor with WPF's RichTextBox. Writing a
drag&drop GUI designer is hard. I think someone should take over
development of Visual Studio for IronPython. That's seems a good place to
start, and work it into a Silverlight IDE.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Don L Sawatzky<BR>Spokane,
WA<BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>