Re: Looking for Python GUI RAD of some sort

Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
> 
Yes, definitely, thank you. It seems quite active still too.