Like you I hate building GUI's by hand. But I do so little of it, relatively speaking, that I can handle it. I am using Komodo 3.0, but whilst the editor portion is great, I am not sure I like the GUI builder either - but then I haven't tried it seriously.

As for O'Reilly - if I had all the money I spent with O'Reilly over the years I would be in for a new car! Sadly I must be portable, although nobody buys the Linux version of our product sales tell me it is a great selling feature with so many folk "thinking of going to Linux" these days.

Thanks for the suggestions!

jdtoronto