[Pythonmac-SIG] Guages, Sliders, Graphs and py2app

[Christopher Barker]

Kenneth miller wrote:
> I like Tk, it's simple, but it's too simple for what I 
> want to do. I'd like to be able to display data using widgets like a 
> thermometer, guages (like in your car), orthogonal graphs, polar graphs, 
> etc. Is there a python GUI framework available with these types of 
> widgets that's easy to distribute along with an App built with py2app?

wxPython is a pretty good bet. It's got a lot more high level widgets 
than Tk --you'll be very happy, unless you depend a lot on the tk Text 
or Canvas widgets -- there are good wx alternatives for most uses of 
these, but nothing quite so easy and comprehensive.

Andrea Gavana Has written a bunch of widgets that might suite you:

http://xoomer.alice.it/infinity77/main/freeware.html

For instance:
http://xoomer.alice.it/infinity77/main/freeware.html#speedmeter


I've seen a set of gages and what not widgets for QT too-  ut can't find 
them with a quick google.

As for graphs, Matplotlib is a good bet -- it works with wx, gtk, qt and tk.

-Chris









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