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Subject: Re: [OT] windows GUI programming question (VB/MFC / WTL / .NET)?

Author: Omid David Tabibi

Date: 13:17:52 01/15/04

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On January 15, 2004 at 14:34:29, Andrei Fortuna wrote:

>On January 15, 2004 at 12:22:29, Omid David Tabibi wrote:
>>
>>Tell me about it... There is almost nothing I haven't done in C/C++... starting
>>from chess and checkers programs to encryption, image processing, and messenger
>>software. But programming GUI just drives me crazy.
>
>Any chance you could be persuaded to try Python + wxPython for GUI programming ?
>
>Recently after completing the GUI for a project using wxWindows I noticed that I
>was typing just too much for the end goal so I searched for something that would
>help me. Python and wxPython appearead as the ideal solution to me.
>
>Some might call Python "executable pseudocode" or might not like the fact that
>it doesn't have strong static type checking (I didn't like that at first), but I
>found it excellent for all my projects where I have CPU cycles to spare. The
>written code is small and easy to understand (so project maintenance is easy in
>the future), comes with lots of build-in libraries and is very intuitive to use.
>YMMV but I just love it !
>

I guess I should give it a try. You know of any good tutorial websites?

And, is it possible to acces a dll from Python? As I always write the core of my
programs in C/C++ anyway, regardless of the GUI language.


>Cheers,
>Andrei



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