[Tutor] RAD GUI Development (like Visual Studio/VBA)

[Alan Gauld]

On 29/06/18 16:05, Glen wrote:

> Can someone advise on a RAD, drag and drop style graphical form/dialog
> creator? Akin to VBA or Visual Studio that will work with Python?

There is nothing even close to the VB GUI builder for Python.

That's because Python has to cover many GUI frameworks,
VB only has to deal with one. Which is why VB is pretty
much useless for anything other than Windows...

But there are some GUI tools available:
- Glade  - PyQt/Side?
- SpecTcl - Tkinter
- Dabo - WxPython (customised for simple DB apps)

I've tried all of them and only Dabo worked for me,
but Davo wasn't really suitable for my particular
project at the time. But YMMV....

There are some others I haven't tried too
- Kivy, Blackadder(??)

And if you want to try using Jython or MacPython(?)
you can use the native GUI builders for those:
- Eclipse/Netbeans (Java)
- XDeveloper (MacOS) - I tried this once and it kind of works...

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