I'm wondering if the new Dabo IDE will simply launch the Dabo Class Designer as it exists now, or if the Class Designer will somehow be more tightly integrated into the IDE.
The reason I ask is that I'm wondering if existing Dabo Class Designer documentation will have to be re-written, and if any existing screen shots will have to be redone. For the last couple of years, more or less as a hobby, I've been investigating different GUI generator programs. I want to find a tool that can easily be used to generate user interfaces for Python GUI applications. Before I discovered Dabo Class Designer, I had settled on wxGlade as the easiest to use, at least for me. However, wxGlade just seems too buggy to suit me, and the commitment for future development by the original designer seems pretty shaky. Also, "releases" for wxGlade are very few and very far between (they encourage people to get the latest from CVS, but sorry, I'm just not into that -- besides, the "tested" releases were buggy enough). The Dabo Class Designer seems, so far, to be more robust, and handles more of the "background machinery" automatically, which is what I think a lot of people will want. Also, I get the impression that Dabo will have a better future than wxGlade, as more people discover Dabo, and as the product improves. Anyway, a few months ago, I started looking at the Dabo Class Designer, and decided I would try to learn it by putting together a series of increasingly more complex application examples. I found out that just creating a very simple "first example" was much harder than it needs to be, because there don't seem to be any simple written tutorials (the screencasts are great, but there aren't enough of them!). I actually enjoy doing technical documentation, if I don't have to do it on some insane schedule, and if I get to decide what to write about. So, I decided to take it slow (real slow, considering how little spare time I have), and write a series of Dabo Class Designer tutorials as I progress in my learning. I actually wrote the first one a couple of months ago, and revised it a few times since then. I call it "Dabo Tutorial: Hello_msgBox", with a subtitle of "Using the Dabo Class Designer to produce what may be the simplest GUI application". I was working on the next one, called "Hello_editBox", when I saw the email talking about integrating the Class Designer into a new Dabo IDE. So, that's why I'm wondering if the Class Designer user interface and appearance will change when it becomes part of the IDE. If the appearance will completely change, I'd rather wait till later to keep learning and writing tutorials, because I like to write about things while they are fresh in my mind. Of course, this means I would have to put off my learning, which I really don't want to do. Actually, it's not completely just a "hobby" for me -- I have in mind replacing an existing Visual Basic application of mine that I want to extend. Anyway, if anyone wants to look at the tutorial, I can make a PDF version available to look at. I don't even know if I can attach it to an email on this list or not. The PDF is about 103 KBytes in size. Regards, Bill _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/dabo-users/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
