[Pythoncard-users] Who is PythonCard's intended audience?

[Kevin W. <sw...@wo...>]

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I'm very interested in wxPython as a development language, because it's
free/open-source and also because of the number of different tools it
supports--including PythonCard. I've been lurking on the PythonCard list
for some time. I'm also working on learning wxPython itself, mainly by
following the various tutorials at the wxPython wiki and also tinkering
with the code samples that come with the wxPython distribution.

That experience, while hardly making me an expert, has made me a little
puzzled about who the intended audience for PythonCard is. Is PythonCard
aimed at people who want a RAD environment for wxPython, or for peole
who perhaps want to dabble a bit with development but not try to learn
wxPython whole hog?

I'm asking not to be contrarian, but out of genuine curiosity. While
wxPython itself is big and my progress with it has been fairly slow, I
don't feel that wxPython is terribly difficult in itself. As well,
PythonCard only supports a subset of wxPython widgets and does not
provide a true drag-and-drop development environment. So, does
PythonCard provide the expected gain in ease-of-use and development
speed that comes with giving up the power (and complexity) of the full
wxPython environment?

Disclosure about my own background: I've done "get-my-hands-dirty"
development work, coding a few non-trivial applications in Tcl/Tk
completely by hand, and I've also done some "quick-and-dirty"
drag-and-drop development with Apple's Xcode tools (AppleScript
Studio--slick and free, but not open-source). So, I've seen both ends of
the spectrum, and am trying to understand where PythonCard fits in.

I appreciate the perspective that others can provide, especially about
the good points of PythonCard that I am perhaps overlooking.


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Cheers,

Kevin Walzer, PhD
WordTech Software--Open Source Applications and Packages for OS X
http://www.wordtech-software.com
http://www.kevin-walzer.com
mailto:sw...@wo...
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