[Edu-sig] Re: Learn to Program in Ten Years

[John Miller]

I just wanted to chime in with a quote from a recent spe announcement:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/ 
thread/d71e84bb54aa4d9d

'''
- wxGlade:
wxGlade is a GUI designer written in Python with the
popular GUI toolkit wxPython, that helps you create
wxWindows/wxPython user interfaces. As you can guess by the
name, its model is Glade, the famous GTK+/GNOME GUI builder,
with which wxGlade shares the philosophy and the look & feel
(but not a line of code). For more info:
http://wxglade.sourceforge.net
'''

This doesn't directly address the issue of which gui toolkit to  
actually use, but might help someone who decided on wxWidgets.

John Miller

On Dec 26, 2004, Dave Reed <drlinux at columbus.rr.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 26 December 2004 16:35, Arthur wrote:
>>> I just took a look at the PyGTK 2.0 Tutorial
>>> http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/index.html
>>>
>>> Very encouraging to see that much documentation spelled out in a  
>>> usable
>>> format.
>>>
>
> (snip)
>
> I've used gtk/pygtk quite a bit and gtkglext with pyopengl a little  
> bit.
> I suggest you take a look at glade for designing the interface along
> with libglade for parsing it. You can find a number of
> articles/tutorials about using it here (yes, one of them is by me and
> discusses glade/libglade):
>
>  http://www.pygtk.org/articles.html
>
> I've also found the C documentation for gtk is very easy to use when
> programming in Python. It is very easy to translate the C functions
> that take a gtk widget as the first parameter into a method of the
> specificied pygtk widget.
>
> I've used it on Linux/Solaris, Windows XP and Mac OS X and it works  
> fine
> on all of them. If I was coding for Windows only, I'd probably pick a
> different widget set, but since I have little interest in programming
> for Windows right now, I think glade/gtk is a great combination.
>
> Dave
>