--- Roman Suzi <rnd-list@[...]..>  wrote:
>  On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Kevin Altis wrote:
> 
>  >Having a tool capable of building resource files
>  for describing windows,
>  >menus, widgets is a good first step towards a
>  PythonCard.
> 
>  Glade does it. It describes resources in XML format.
> 

OK, lets talk about Glade. Firstly it is tightly bound
to GTK+ - not necessarily a bad thing but this does
not exactly produce the cross platform native look and
feel that many of us would like. Secondly, it is not a
builder but a code generator. Essentially it just
generates source code for you. I think we need to go
further than that, perhaps Glade would be a good
starting point, but it currently does not provide the
functionality that I (and Kevin) have been talking
about on this list.

Finally, and the real killer for me here, is that it
really currently only runs under Gnome on Linux.
*Most* developers don't have easy access to a Linux
box.

<Off topic>  Before anyone starts flaming me, I'm
trying to get Debian to run on a machine at home but
its a bit difficult to do anything useful when you
can't get the modem to work ... grr </Off topic> 

The rest of the message is very good though.

Regards,
Andy


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