Easiestquickest method for very simple interfaces 4027

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:46:08 +0200, Anton Suchaneck staggered into the Black Sun and said: ~-list.txt && lsjunk grep -f ~-list.txt" in a GUI.

When someone asks "How do I do N?", it's really bad form to tell them to use vaporware. If you don't know, say so. If you can't do it, say so. *Don't* tell them that you can do N with programs that don't exist.

I stand by this statement, since I've been getting paid to write, test, and debug code since 2000, and I've seen professional programmers (and amateur programmers) make hundreds of stupid errors no matter what methodology they were using. Like Brooks said, there's no silver bullet.

Pick one, then. You're not going to get very far until you do. You mentioned Python earlier; that'll work fine. I don't know if there's an equivalent of the Llama Book for Python, but there are online tutorials for sure.

The vital things are always simple; the simple things are usually harder than you expect.

One poster said they were "too low-level", which may or may not be true depending on what you need to do. What you said you wanted to do (buttons, an image preview, a list) can be done in almost any widget set. GTK+ can do almost anything, so you have the freedom to expand what the widgets do as your programs suffer Feature Creep.

Using GTK+ from C-C++ can be annoying; you have to manage your own memory and deal with type safety and all that. The Perl and Python bindings remove those particular hbuttles, and you have to pbutt fewer parameters to the functions since the bindings take care of some of them automagically.

Who said anything about "all the documentation"? You typically treat documentation as a *reference*, not a novel. If you want to know how FooWidgets treat "table objects" (whatever those are), then you Google "FooWidgets reference manual" and grep that manual for things that look promising. Or look at the sample FooWidgets code in the tutorial section where they display a table.

Um. Humans are really good at fuzzy pattern-matching, which is really useful in many real-world problems. Computers aren't currently good at "fuzzy". I don't know how creating a new CPU would make computers better at that. If you do, get yourself some funding and build some; the militaries of various nations would probably be very interested.

I don't think this would work. Taste in music is one of those insanely subjective things. ISTR some experiments in using computers to create songs in the last year; the results got written up at. , and many of the commenters said things like "Man, those songs sucked. I'd rather listen to Ashley Simpson."

Just like laser printers made calligraphy obsolete and no longer practiced, right? :-)

? You must like some languages better than others. Say which languages you've used in the past, then say which one(s) you liked the best, and someone will be able to suggest common languages with good GUI widget bindings that are similar to what you've used before. I'd suggest Perl or Python, since Perl's ubiquitous and Python's almost everywhere, they both can be fun to use, and they both have good GUI bindings for several widget sets.

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