Re: [Pythoncard-users] PythonCard comparison

[Alex T. <al...@tw...>]

Nicolas Pinault wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a new project writting a software with python a language. My 
> machine is running WinXP. As I have not much time to spend on it (It's 
> a project I'm writting at home) I'm looking for a simple and efficient 
> GUI. I have discovered PythonCard. It looks very interesting. I'm also 
> interrested in WAX. Does anybody know this package ? How do you 
> compare it with WAX ?

I use PythonCard, I don't use (and never have used) Wax.  That's both a 
warning about how biased my answer is likely to be, and a large part of 
my answer :-)

I did look at them both, before choosing to investigate Pythoncard - and 
was sufficiently happy with what I found that I didn't need to go back 
to look in detail at Wax.

Wax *feels* to me like wxPython, only easier and better. You do 
everything in the code; you create and lay out your components by 
writing lines in your source code. Wax makes it better - feels Pythonic 
instead of feeling like C++ - but it's still very "remote" from the GUI 
appearance.  I prefer the feel of Pythoncard, where you can create and 
layout components in the resourceEditor (though if you need to, you can 
later move them, change them or create more of them in code).

Pythoncard makes it easy to use wxPython directly, for any controls or 
events which are not yet included in Pythoncard; it's not clear whether 
Wax allows the same.

Pythoncard is relatively active - not sure about Wax. I know Hans Nowak 
has said that he has little or no time to work on it, and is encouraging 
others to step forward if they wish to contribute; but as yet there are 
no additional developers listed on Sourceforge. 

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