GUI - VCL Use

[David C. Ullrich]

On Sun, 22 Apr 2001 21:54:40 -0300, Carlos Ribeiro
<cribeiro at mail.inet.com.br> wrote:

>At 00:25 23/04/01 +0000, CarlCrewe wrote:
>>Has anyone used a RAD tool such as Borland C++ Builder or Delphi (same VCL) to
>>write GUI for python
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>I'm thinking hard about doing it. I'm used to Delphi - not that I think 
>it's the best tool around, but it does have a nice set of visual 
>components, and the language is much more consistent than C++ (at least 
>from my point of view). It also generates decent code. There is a Python 
>for Delphi project, at
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>http://www.multimania.com/marat/delphi/python.htm
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>I have installed it and played a little bit. It seems to work,

I use it all the time, no problems.

>but I 
>haven't done any serious project with it,

Of course _I_ have never done a "serious project" in any
language so you can't go by me. But I'm a big fan of the
Python for Delphi thing - it makes it trivial to include a
Python interpreter in a Delphi application for various
things, also trivial to let a Python program call on Delphi
for number crunching. (That's "trivial" meaning trivial even 
for a fool like me who knows no C and doesn't want to
learn any...)

>so your mileage may vary. My idea 
>is to have the interface written in Delphi, and business logic and user 
>extensions written in Delphi.

Good idea (presumably the first "Delphi" here is Delphi while
the second "Delphi" is meant to illustrate how flexible Python
can be:  even the spelling of the name of the language
can be modified...)

>Carlos Ribeiro
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