Why create a GUI it is much work?

Question

Well you think in make a simple GUI for a simple code then you see that it is much work for a little thing. Widgets inside containers and more containers. So hard when I have experienced it. Now I really appreciate who does interfaces for OS or same full OS. (sorry my bad English)

Answer 1

It is a question of good knowledge of the GUI module you are using. It is still a lot less work to use a ready-made solution of tkinter or kivy than writing it yourself from scratch, right? ;)

Take a look at www.codeskulptor.org
It's an online Python interpreter with an embedded simplegui module and vast documentation on it. Creating ready applications in it is extremely easy :)

Answer 2

I can not understand what happened to RAD (Rapid Application Development) thing after I've been out of Software Development for 20(!) years. Man! Delphi was revolutionary in 1997! Then there was CBuilder (or was it C++Builder? ☺) - same solution for C(++)... and what I see this years (2015-2017). Cool intelligent IDEs for different languages (Eclipse, JetBrain's solutions, NetBeans)... and not one of them is easy enough to build nice GUI fast(/quickly). Nothing as revolutionary as Delphi for 20 years?? Am I looking in a wrong direction? (Only web-interfaces is a different story but still not every software/application is web-based... or may be I am to old to learn those new [web] frameworks as fast as I was learning those "new" features of Borland products of those days... ☺)

Answer 3

I found that Visual Studio makes the process less painful than other IDEs. I don't know why, maybe its the layout and the quality of the IDE. I've tried others like netbeans and found it messy and awkward.

I get what you're saying though and I feel there could be more templates and skeleton projects available for devs.

Answer 4

I am using tkinter module python

Answer 5

I struggle with them too outside of VS. it's an art as much as a science. But of course it's worth doing. Most people don't want to use text driven applications. In some situations it works, but most of the time your users expect something familiar.