[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: Mac Guikits

[Chris Barker]

Troy Rollins wrote:
> Personally, I thing all of the current GUI builders look like Windows
> ports (since they mostly are), and do not reflect the way a Mac user
> would develop anything, never mind a GUI designer. For the most part,
> I think it is going to take a tool which originates on the Mac to be
> one which actually looks and behaves like Mac users would expect....

This is a very good point, but it's really not about the GUI toolkit, 
it's about choices that the designer makes. I've made it a personal 
mission to try to keep people from using MDI with wxPython, but it's a 
hard one with Windows developers...(SPE was one of these)

wx uses the native widgets for the most part, so how Mac-like and app is 
is really a function of how it's designed. Not that every Mac-ism is 
supported, but it's pretty close.

> which I suppose is what PyObjC is all about...

I'm sure you could write an app with Cocoa that didn't look or feel like 
a Mac app either, but it would be harder.

That being said, I think there is a convergent of styles between 
Windows, Mac, and Unix. It's just not that different anymore.

-Chris




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