python gui rant

Jarek Zgoda jarek at usun.zgoda.biz
Wed Nov 13 14:31:04 EST 2002


Dnia 13 Nov 2002 16:33:26 GMT, grante at visi.com (Grant Edwards) pisze na 
grupie comp.lang.python:

> One warning: there is a very special place reserved in hell for
> people who design GUI dialogs with hard-wired widget locations
> so that the dialogs can't be resized.  One of the reasons I
> really hate working with MS-Windows because of all the dialog
> boxes that use 80% of the space in a dialog for useless crap,
> and then show only four lines in a list-box containing 100+
> elements.  A decent GUI would let you resize the dialog so you
> could see more of the stuff in the list-box.  But not
> MS-Windows....

And here comes the Delphi's idea of using alignments and anchors. AFAIR, 
wxPython has also "anchors", but I didn't found any reasonable 
information on using it (except the demo application), so I'm forced to 
use sizers...

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