Why don't Python add-ins provide a dialog box for user input?

[IanBroad]

Currently, we have:

OpenDialog

SaveDialog

GPToolDialog

MessageBox

But there's no way to actually get user input. Why is this? Does ESRI plan on eventually providing a way to get user input?

[Anonymous User]

Check out ArcMap and Python: Closing the VBA Gap | Esri Video

Using wxPython as described in this video works even if it isn't officially supported by esri.

[TI]

But be cautious.  As per my other post about Tkinter, wxPython GUI's in Python add-ins can randomly cause ArcMap to crash.  A very simply GUI may not experience the problem, but I would not trust it.  My experience with wxPython and several other Python GUIs in a Python add-in all had the same problem (by my GUI was somewhat more complicated).

I then found that other people had concluded that non-ArcMap GUIs in Python addins are incompatible with ArcMap and likely to cause it to crash.