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

[Shall, Sydney]

On 30/06/2018 00:34, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote:
> 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...
> 
Alan,

Could you expand a bit on the use of XDeveloper.
I have need of some such utility for my project and I use a MAC OS X.

Thanks.

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