GUIs - A Modest Proposal

[jyoung79 at kc.rr.com]

On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 04:16 -0700, ant wrote:
> Since I started this thread, I feel a sense of responsibility for it,
> in some bizarre way.

I'm glad you brought this GUI subject up.  I've enjoyed reading 
everyones thoughts on this subject.


> Most people who have used a GUI have some investment in it. So
> arguments about which one is best tend to be
> partial and not wonderfully constructive.

I'm just frustrated at the moment since I don't know which one to
choose.  Looks like there's a lot of choices and I need to spend
a lot of time testing each of them out - and each has it's own 
learning curve.


> But whenever I
> write a program that someone else is going to use, it has to have a
> GUI. Is that not true for most people?

I would agree.  When writing code for my customers, they want a very
intuitive and simple application.  GUI is perfect for this instead of
having to include flags and path strings in the command-line.


> However many people have neither the time or the
> expertise to decide, and the experience of choosing the wrong one is
> a real turn-off.

Yeah, I definitely agree!


> That, in my opinion, is where a replacement for Tkinter should be
> aimed: the beginning graphics programmer.
> But if it is built on the right foundation (which Tkinter seems not
> to be), it could be extended to cover
> far more useful cases than Tkinter can.

I haven't been able to test pyGUI just yet.  From reading about it, it
looks pretty hopeful.  I need to install an earlier OS X version since
I can't seem to get it to work on Snow Leopard.

Jay