On 17/12/06 16:37 +0530, Pradnyesh Sawant wrote: > On 17 Dec, 03:41:27 PM, Chirag Wazir wrote: > > I don't really use the designer myself so I haven't looked, I find it is > > easier to maintain code I write from scratch rather than worrying about > > exactly how the designer & pyuic decide to do things. > Thanks again for those helpful links and info > > However, some Qs crop up to my mind -- plz do pardon me if i'm asking > something stupid, as am a "newbie" to gui programming: > why would one not use an IDE (especially one where one can drag-drop > widgets onto a form) to create a gui? is it not more intuitive? is code
Because sometimes it is just easier to write source directly. Not always, just sometimes. Intuitive, yes, but setting properties is just easier in the editor. > generation not less cumbersome this way? especially with layouts; coz i > just saw Layouts are best done in a visual medium, properties are not necessarily best done that way. Code generation isn't necessarily a good idea either, often the programmer can do a better job. For a newbie, I would recommend the use of the designer tool and automagic code generation, until you learn what the code generator does. Devdas Bhagat -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
