Kevin said : > I agree with you about Komodo. I wish it were available on OS X. The Mac > is a big void for ActiveState. There have been periodic requests for a > Mac port, but apparently they are concerned about a) the commercial > viability of such an effort and b) some considerable technical hurdles > surrounding their text component (Scintilla) which has not been fully > ported to the Mac.
Komodo moving to Mac would be an extremely welcomed thing. Black adder as well. Either one was available, I probably wouldn't have had anything to say - I'd just be working. > > Boa Contructor is not usable except with an obsolete version of wxPython > (2.4.x), it has not been updated in two years, and so I have never been > able to give it a real try. Yes. Conceptually it looks pretty good, though I would imagine it to be pretty buggy. In fact, everything I have seen relating to tools for Python on the Mac are pretty buggy and incomplete. > > > One thing to keep in mind with Komodo is that while it has a GUI > builder, I believe it only supports Tk/Tkinter. That's not surprising, > given that ActiveState's bread and butter is Tcl. I myself like Tk, but > I also develop in Tcl: I'm learning Python as a way into the more > comprehensive GUI toolkits that it supports. (To me Tkinter just looks > like a weird mangling of Tk code, and doesn't interest me.) I like a GUI builder primarily for simple apps, and prototyping. Coming from the Director world, I'm also quite well-versed in building every individual GUI component myself from bitmaps and vectors. Coding the GUI doesn't scare me, I just don't want that to be the ONLY way to get a GUI with a couple of buttons and a text field, for instance. > > In other words, if you want a commercial GUI builder for something other > than Tk, you're back to wxDesigner or Black Adder/Qt. Or, coding the > stuff by hand in Komodo. But if you're moving to Linux, Black Adder > might be a good route. (Assuming theKompany doesn't go belly up in the > interim...) Black adder would be a great route. But it can't build for OSX. Am I wrong in thinking that the Tk GUIs created with Komodo on Linux shold be buildable for OSX delivery? Even still, I'll likely use hand-coded wx more often anyway... > -- Troy Rollins RPSystems, Ltd. www.rpsystems.net _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
