[Pythoncard-users] OOPs ! :-)) I said my piece, but here is the PythonCard post from cmpnet I MEANT to forwrd before... ;-)))

[Ronald D S. <rd...@ea...>]

Fred Pacquier wrote:
> 
> Well, if you consider Delphi's IDE a commercial-quality GUI, I'd say BOA
> comes close.

Indeed it does. The UI that it presents is quite an exhilarating thing.
However when I tried to actually use all the functionality that it
implies, I was left with the impression that BOA is raising expectations
that it cannot, as yet, really meet. Was I wrong? Are you actually using
BOA to create useful apps?
 
> There are two other interesting projects right now in that domain :
> PythonCard wants to be what HyperCard was for the Mac (and relies,
> surprise, on wxPython). Already does surprising things (and nice fractals!)

I've had a look at it as well, and have had some offline discussions
with Kevin Altis about it. My observation was that HyperCard was never
an app framework decoupled from an IDE, the two were always integrally
bound together. PythonCard *is* currently an app framework decoupled
from an IDE. Nothing wrong with that, per se, but I guess that many
people who hear "does for Python what HyperCard did for the Mac" will
expect the integral IDE right out of the starting gate, and will be
surprised not to find it.
 


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