Re: Looking for Python GUI RAD of some sort

On Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 12:20 PM Chris Green <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I am a retired software engineer, most of my professional life was
> spent developing in C, C++ and assembler.
>
> Nowadays I still write programs, for my own use or amusement in the
> main, and mostly in Python.  They are mostly non-GUI but I have written
> a couple of GUI programs using PyGObject and Gtk.
>
> I'm looking for something that will make things easier designing the
> GUI layout and so on, rather than doing it 'by hand' as it were. I
> guess what I'm looking for is a RAD of some sort but I can't really
> find anything that doesn't seem very complex and heavyweight.
>
> Is there anything out there that provides a drag and drop [ish] tool
> that generates actual Python code? I want to be able to play with the
> code directly having built the basics.
>
> I don't want a full-blown IDE because they rarely have a decent editor
> and tend to hide everything that's going on, or so it seems to me.
>
> Maybe I'm just getting too old for modern software development!
> However any ideas would be very welcome. :-)

The debian-python list may be a better place to ask the question.

Jeff