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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks for all the replies.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I guess I am still used to the microsoft world where you get one editor and it does everything.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>As all of you are aware it often takes a significant effort of weeks or months to decide a language or tool doesn’t meet all your needs,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>So I am glad of your advice before diving into evaluating the myriad of tools and systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Robert<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> eric-bounces@riverbankcomputing.com [mailto:eric-bounces@riverbankcomputing.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Flavio Coelho<br><b>Sent:</b> 09 May 2011 10:43<br><b>To:</b> Werner F. Bruhin<br><b>Cc:</b> eric@riverbankcomputing.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Eric] Gui development in linux.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If ypur project is heavy on forms, it may have a database behind it. <br>So it may be a good Idea to check out camelot:<br><a href="http://www.python-camelot.com/">http://www.python-camelot.com/</a><br>it still uses Qt and you can still use eric as your IDE<br><br>my 2 cents,<br><br clear=all>Flávio Codeço Coelho<br>================<br>+55(21) 3799-5567<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://emap.fgv.br/flavio.coelho" target="_blank">Professor</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://emap.fgv.br" target="_blank">Escola de Matemática Aplicada</a> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.fgv.br" target="_blank">Fundação Getúlio Vargas</a><br><a href="http://br.linkedin.com/in/fccoelho" target="_blank"><span style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=100 height=100 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:~WRD000.jpg" alt="Image removed by sender."></span></a><a href="http://twitter.com/fccoelho" target="_blank"><span style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=100 height=100 id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:~WRD000.jpg" alt="Image removed by sender."></span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 04:01, Werner F. Bruhin <<a href="mailto:werner.bruhin@free.fr">werner.bruhin@free.fr</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 05/08/2011 08:25 PM, Geoff Clements wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>In reply to Detlev Offenbach re Re: [Eric] Gui development in linux.:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>As a GUI toolkit I would recommend Qt with the PyQt python bindings. As an<br>IDE like VB I am recommending eric. Depending on which version of Python<br>shall be used (Python2 or Python3) one should use eric4 or eric5.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br>Detlev's recommendation gets a +1 from me but just to give you an alternative<br>you may also want to check out <a href="http://www.wxwidgets.org/" target="_blank">http://www.wxwidgets.org/</a> and the python<br>bindings at <a href="http://www.wxpython.org/" target="_blank">http://www.wxpython.org/</a>.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>If you go the wxPython route you should also look at Dabo - <a href="http://dabodev.com/" target="_blank">http://dabodev.com/</a> , its class designer lets you layout screens/forms<br><br>Other options are:<br>sqlkit - <a href="http://sqlkit.argolinux.org/" target="_blank">http://sqlkit.argolinux.org/</a> - does a lot of guessing/autogeneration of forms (which can be adjusted) if your application is database oriented and uses SQLAlchemy<br><br><a href="http://wxglade.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://wxglade.sourceforge.net/</a> , layout designer<br><br>More options can be found here:<br><a href="http://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming" target="_blank">http://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming</a><br><span style='color:#888888'><br><br>Werner</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Eric mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Eric@riverbankcomputing.com" target="_blank">Eric@riverbankcomputing.com</a><br><a href="http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/eric" target="_blank">http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/eric</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>