Malcolm Greene wrote:
I'm trying to persuade my management team and my customer's management
team that high quality GUI's can be built using wxPython. My preference
is to find wxPython applications (vs. wxWidget C++) because I'm also
encouraging the use of Python as a development tool. However, I would
also welcome examples of (non-Python) wxWidget applications that
demonstrate that wxWidgets is a viable platform for delivering
applications with commercial quality user interfaces.
For me, one of the big wins in wx is the convenient use of sizers to manage real estate and allow for resizing. I'm maintaining, and gradually evolving, a VB application with many forms that are a bit too small to show all the data. All the controls have scrollbars, of course, so one can fiddle with each one to see what's hidden, but it's much nicer when one can just resize the whole frame to show more (and have the frame itself adapt to changes in data).
This is easy to build into a wx application, but a royal pain to "roll your own" on every form when the toolkit doesn't provide for it. As a result, the users are usually stuck with what the programmer thought was a good layout. As someone suggested, the wxPython demo can be used to show off the concept very nicely. It'd be even better if you could show an example of a typical form that really should be resizable, but can't be (some Windows dialogs might be good examples of this).
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Don Dwiggins
Advanced Publishing Technology