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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/24/2014 11:15 AM, Chris Angelico
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<pre wrap="">On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 4:04 AM, Mark Lawrence <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk"><breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 24/07/2014 17:18, Chris Angelico wrote:
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<pre wrap="">The first one is certainly possible. Pick any of the well-known
toolkits (Tkinter, wxwidgets, GTK, etc), and see how it feels. All of
them are portable across the three platforms you name, so see which
one is most comfortable for you to code in and produces the best
results.
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s/wxwidgets/wxpython/ unless you fancy wrapping it yourself :)
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Yeah that. And pygtk rather than GTK. Or I could have gone the other
way and said Tk instead of Tkinter. One way or another, I ought to
have been more consistent. Anyway. Pick a good toolkit, get to know
it, and use it. Personally, I like GTK, but that's partly because its
bindings come with Pike, and I did GUI work with Pike before I did
with Python; the same advantage, for someone starting with Python,
goes to Tk. But the main thing is, it's easy to be cross-platform -
take whatever feels good to you.
ChrisA
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Not knowing any of these GUI platforms (although I've read some
about Tk), I have some questions.<br>
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* Which of them use UTF-8 as their native Unicode interface?<br>
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* Which makes it easiest to discover and adjust font metrics such as
kerning?<br>
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* Which makes it easiest to obtain bounding rectangles of a piece of
text?<br>
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* Which makes it easiest to use a set of fonts such as Times (for
Latin) and others for Cyrillic, Chinese, and Korean? Or which
supplies a font configuration that can "just be used" for any
language?<br>
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Glenn<br>
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