Though I haven't used it for 4 years, I'm a big fan of wxpython[1]. It provides about everything that swing does for you.
Here are some positves about wxpython: * Requires that you spend a day to learn python * Uses python -> shorter dev cycle, no annoying compile step * Popular, maintained, helpful community * Uses native toolkit on windows/linux/mac (not emulated like swing) * Commercial friendly license (for those anti-GPL folks) * Can build native exe for windows * Ships with a demo/sample code Cons: * based on c++ toolkit, so isn't as "pythonic" as it could be -matt [1] http://www.wxpython.org On 10/31/06, Mitch Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm a low-level OS-type guy with a reasonable amount of Java knowledge. However, I'm a beginner at things like GUIs and Swing. I have an idea for a Java Application that I would like to develop. It will a standalone program that runs on a single machine and must have a reasonably good GUI. I've been teaching myself Swing, and all that stuff is very cool. But I find myself having to write too much stuff from scratch that I know has been done before. Plus my framework stuff doesn't look very nice! I need an Application Framework to hang my code on. I stayed up late last night (too late according to my wife!) searching the Web, and I found a few candidates: Aloe, JSR 296, JGoodies, Eclipse, XUI. There are also a whole host of other frameworks (too many!) that are targeted more at Web-type applications (AJAX, JLense, Radicore, etc.). I don't think I'm ready for those yet. But then I don't know, as I will want to learn Web App development eventually. Anyway, does anyone have experience with those that I mentioned or others that I don't know about yet? I want to be able to quickly and easily prototype my ideas. I'm looking for something that helps me with the following kinds of things: - Error/Exception handling - Logging (of events and special conditions) - Menus, buttons, controls - Window management (changing fonts and styles) - Look and Feel management (I want to try different L&Fs to see what I like) - Tables of data, sortable in different ways, and editable - Printing facilities for reports - Multi-threading (kicking off a background task, and updating the GUI with progress) - Copy/Paste - Message boxes - File access - Properties The one thing I don't need is a database. My data is reasonably small, so I plan to just serialize the objects into a file and reload them into memory whenever the App starts up. That is actually the kind of code that I am pretty good at. It is the GUI stuff that gives me fits. I'm using Eclipse as my IDE, and I especially like the idea of actually using Eclipse as the framework itself (RCP). But that sounds like a huge learning curve and perhaps overkill, and I want to have something working soon in my spare time. Anyway, I suppose if I spent several weeks with each of the above technologies, I could eventually figure out which one meets my needs best. But I don't want to do that right now (lazy me!). So, I'm looking for advice from those who have more experience in this area. _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
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