Re: [Freecats-Dev] About Freecats' future development(s)

[Marc Prior]

Now that you've broken the silence, Henri <g>:

> Personally, I can't say I obtained much results with the Python GUI builder
> I tried recently (wxGlade). This is not to say it does not work, simply
> that I don't have enough background to really do things by myself. I might
> end up working on paper.
> (...)
> Did anybody hear about WideStudio ( C++, Perl, Python, Ruby), or can
> somebody suggest alternatives for quickly building portable GUIs?

One user was waxing lyrical on L4T yesterday about wxPython, you might ask 
him.

As for me, I can whole-heartedly recomment tcl as a scripting language for 
prototyping, and tk as the GUI builder. GUIs are incredibly easy to build 
with tk. There are several online tutorials. tk has been adapted for use with 
several other languages and tcl/tk runs on both Linux and Windows.

> I could not try out Dan's OOxlate, as I don't have any Linux machine at
> hand presently.

Excuses, excuses! What's to stop you slotting in a new hard drive (60 Euro?), 
or partitioning an existing one? With Knoppix, you could have a Linux machine 
in two hours, including time to fit the hardware.

> I hope somebody could, and I would be glad to hear about
> it

With Dan's help, I'm currently working on installing it on Knoppix. But 
OmegaT has priority with me of course.

> Julien told me he had a try at Frankenstein, and he did not find it that
> inspiring - I believe this is the same problem with this type of software,
> an interesting try, but not exactly what we are looking for.

Why was it not inspiring?
How far did Julien get with installation?
Why is it not exactly what you are looking for, and since it is now 
open-source, what's to stop you modifying it?

Marc