On Feb 14, 2005, at 1:02 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
Roger Binns wrote:My wxPython code is hand coded. I haven't found any of the design
tools to be much good for non-trivial projects. For example try
doing something like the wxPython demo with one of them. They
also don't work well if you have custom widgets, which is a lot of my UI.
This brings up a really good point about GUI GUI Builders: They tend to discourage the use of custom widgets, which is a really a bad thing. That's why I don't use them. Maybe someone will developer one that works really well with custom widgets some day... I'm guessing that would be a tool specifically developed for, and written in, python. That way you could easily add your custom widget to the "pallet" of available widgets, and it could be a first class citizen.
Cocoa and Interface Builder get this right. In IB, there's a "Custom Class" tab in the info window when you're inspecting an instance of something, and you can choose any subclass. If you want to expose additional configuration features or a nice display for this widget, you can implement that in an Interface Builder palette.
Of course, this is only really useful for Mac OS X specific development, but I would definitely recommend that developers of tools for other frameworks look to Cocoa for inspiration. It's extremely mature and flexible.
-bob
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