[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: Mac Guikits

[Troy Rollins]

> > 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.

In theory that is certainly true, in practice... well, for some odd
reason there is a LOT of bad GUI in the windows world, and VERY little
good. Mac users pay more attention to GUI, and that exists to this
day, even though the toolsets are similar if the exactly the same. Mac
programs look and feel better on the whole than Windows programs do. I
used iTunes on Windows the other day and said "you know, if all
windows apps worked like this, it might be ok..." (And yes, I know
that iTunes breaks almost every HIG rule, but what I'm talking about
is simply the careful layout and consideration of design, not the "by
the book GUI".)

The concept of an environment like REALbasic, Mac-like GUI designer,
editor, debugger, but which uses Python as the language sounds just
wonderful to me. That is an environment I could work in every day –
like I do Director now.

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Troy Rollins
RPSystems, Ltd.
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