Michael,<br><br>Thanks for the reply. I have to learn how to tell the difference between an apple and an orange before I can start cooking!!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 13, 2008 12:23 PM, Michael Foord <<a href="mailto:fuzzyman@voidspace.org.uk">
fuzzyman@voidspace.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">Keith Hoard wrote:<br>> What are the "big picture" differences between these three?
<br>><br>> I've figured out that all three give Python GUI capability. I also<br>> know that .NET is specific to Windows and in addition gives access to<br>> sound and graphics capability of the computer. Tk and PyQt are
<br>> available for both Windows and Linux. I'm sure there are other<br>> extensions out there that I'm not aware of that provide the same<br>> functionality.<br><br></div>You're really comparing apples and oranges here.
<br><br>.NET (and Mono) are *platforms* for creating and running applications.<br>They give access to libraries (like Windows Forms) for creating GUIs.<br><br>PyQt and Tkinter are GUI libraries that run *on* CPython (and not on .NET).
<br><br>There are lots of GUI toolkits available for CPython, but very few that<br>are easy to use from both CPython and IronPython.<br><br>The Mono implementation of Windows Forms is getting very capable now, so<br>it is a good target for creating attractive cross-platform applications
<br>with IronPython.<br><br>Tk is a bit of an odd user interface - and by default it looks quite<br>ugly. You can tweak to produce modern looking applications, but it<br>wouldn't be my first choice of GUI toolkit.<br>
<br>Other libraries like PyQt, wxPython, GTK etc, are good ways of creating<br>good looking desktop applications with CPython. Choosing which one to<br>use is a difficult task...<br><br>I hope this helps.<br><br>Michael Foord
<br><a href="http://www.manning.com/foord" target="_blank">http://www.manning.com/foord</a><br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>><br>> Do any of these three systems rely on each other? When you write an<br>> application, would I ever use .NET in one part and Tk in another and
<br>> PyQt in another? If I write an application in Python using one of<br>> these systems, would another user on a different OS have to make<br>> extensive changes to the program to run it on their system, or is that
<br>> the beauty of the multi-platform extensions?<br>><br>> I'm not looking for extensive in-depth tutorial (I'll get to that in a<br>> few months!!), just trying to figure out in my mind the differences of
<br>> these three systems.<br>><br>> Thanks in advance. . .<br>><br>> --<br>><br>> Keith Hoard<br>> Collierville, TN<br></div>> <a href="mailto:khoard@gmail.com">khoard@gmail.com</a> <mailto:
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