OSCON: Keep It Simple With PythonCard

PythonCard is good for building simple GUI applications

• NOT HyperCard (that was original intent)
• More like VB (today)

Creating an application is quite simple. There is a GUI environment, which you use to create a new application. Cross-platform, runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Dependent on wxPython underneath, which means that Mac is the least mature of all platforms.

The GUI design environment (the resource editor) is quite VB-like. You can drag and drop form elements, text labels, etc. PythonCard has runtime tools, including debugging, logging, and watching messages. Makes it easy to figure out what is going on in the application. There is also a built-in code editor. And there is also a python shell window that is always available. The shell has code-completion, which seems nice.

Stand-alone installers exist via the standard Python means (PyExe and some other packager for the Mac).

-Andy.