On 17/12/06 16:37 +0530, Pradnyesh Sawant wrote:
On 17 Dec, 03:41:27 PM, Chirag Wazir wrote:
I don't really use the designer myself so I haven't looked, I find it is easier to maintain code I write from scratch rather than worrying about exactly how the designer & pyuic decide to do things.
Thanks again for those helpful links and info
However, some Qs crop up to my mind -- plz do pardon me if i'm asking something stupid, as am a "newbie" to gui programming: why would one not use an IDE (especially one where one can drag-drop widgets onto a form) to create a gui? is it not more intuitive? is code
Because sometimes it is just easier to write source directly. Not always, just sometimes. Intuitive, yes, but setting properties is just easier in the editor.
generation not less cumbersome this way? especially with layouts; coz i just saw
Layouts are best done in a visual medium, properties are not necessarily best done that way. Code generation isn't necessarily a good idea either, often the programmer can do a better job.
For a newbie, I would recommend the use of the designer tool and automagic code generation, until you learn what the code generator does.
Devdas Bhagat