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John, with all due respect, I doubt very much that Dabo has "almost everything" WinDev has for the desktop. I dont think Dabo will even come close to the full desktop IDE, tool-set, and control-set that WinDev offers a developer. If you are referring to my post iro grids and tabs - even that post only scratches the surface of what those controls offer - I was making a quick list of things that interested me for a form I had been working on.
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Actually I can only go on what's in the feature brochure they put on their website. Other than what I've said in the past (IDE, webapps, etc) I don't see much difference.
Grids appears about the same - including changing colors, formula in cells.
Windows appears about the same (in fact Ctrl++ works to increase font size).
charting about the same
Multi-line about the same
seaches about the same
images about the same
trees about the same
I could go on. But what I think you are missing is a vast number of python lib's out in the cloud and all work with Dabo. For example: I said Dabo did not support direct excel output. But that's not really true there are at least three different lib's that provide direct output to excel with nothing more than a simple function call (passing the data set - a dict). So saying Dabo is limited is really not a correct answer because Dabo is nothing but a framework using all the python lib's available.

I'm sure that WinDev might make it easier (the IDE is impressive) - but to say that Dabo does not have some sort of similar control or that it's missing something I'm not to sure I would agree. The desktop has been around for a long time and the python guys have done an excellent job of providing almost everything anyone has thought of with regard to screen controls. And of course if it doesn't it can be built - which has been literally done by thousands of python programmers.

Jos - I don't think less of WinDev because Dabo (python) can match it. I see the advantage of WinDev. It's all right in front of you as you program. The importance of that fact can't be disregarded. Remember why we choose IDE's - because they are RAD. Otherwise, we would all program in C - after all C can do everything Dabo, WinDev can do. And most likely C would be faster running. But I don't want to program in C do you?
Johnf