On Nov 14, 2007 7:37 PM, Tim Berneman <<a href="mailto:tim@netconx.net">tim@netconx.net</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">is any distro 'better'
than others for development? I've done a little research on languages etc
but thought I wouldn't cloud the issue by naming them here and I want to start
with a clean slate.</font></div>
</div></blockquote></div><br clear="all">I don't think one is better than the other.<br><br>If you want a VB like form designer, the choices I've seen are:<br><br> * QT Designer<br> * Glade (for GTK)<br> * Eclipse's VE plugin (last I checked, it doesn't yet work with
3.3, so you need 3.2) - see screenshot at <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/files/GutsyImages/Eclipse-GUI-Builder.jpg">http://www.ubuntu.com/files/GutsyImages/Eclipse-GUI-Builder.jpg</a><br><br>I personally like rapid development provided by dynamic languages such as Python. Its getting to the point where you can write using PyGTK and things work and look good on both Linux and Windows. You didn't say that you wanted cross platform, so that may be a moot point. However, after you've used Python gui apps for a little bit, when you switch to a C or C++ app, even though the python programs didn't feel slow at all, the C ones feel faster. Especially the intial load time. This could be entirely system dependent of course.
<br><br>Here's an interesting tool I happened across recently - it makes
creating simple GUI programs extremely quick and easy:
<a href="http://autoglade.wiki.sourceforge.net/autoglade+tutorial+-+first+steps">http://autoglade.wiki.sourceforge.net/autoglade+tutorial+-+first+steps</a><br>
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At its simplest, it's just a snazzy version of good ol' dialog, but you
can also use it from within your python scripts and get a little more
fancy.<br><br>Disclaimer: I'm a web guy...<br>-- <br>Matthew Nuzum<br>newz2000 on freenode