Cross-platform GUI app -- Tkinter?

[Michele Rosen]

Let me preface by saying I am a complete newbie to
Python, so I appreciate any corrections to what I am
saying (or suggestions)...

That said, I believe there is also a way to use
'freeze' to package a Python app with the necessary
components of the Python interpreter so you can
distribute your program to users who don't even have
Python installed...

Also, thanks for mentioning Pygame - I have some ideas
along those lines as well, so I'm going to take a look
at it!

Regards,
Michele


> 
> Message: 11
>    Date: 16 Jul 2001 15:00:27 -0700
>    From: steveha at animal.blarg.net (Steve R.
> Hastings)
> Subject: Re: Cross-platform GUI app -- Tkinter?
> 
> Mark 'Kamikaze' Hughes
> (kamikaze at kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu) wrote:
> > if the expensive book is John Grayson's _Python
> and
> > Tkinter Programming_, get it now, it's a damn fine
> book.
> 
> Thanks for the tip.  I took your advice and got it.
> 
> I checked www.amazon.com, and found that they offer
> the Grayson book for
> 20% off--an even better deal than the sale at the
> store!--so I ordered the
> book from Amazon.
> 
> 
> >   If what you want is portability, though,
> Python's probably more
> > portable than Java
> 
> Okay.  I thought Java bytecodes were my best hope
> for cross-platform
> compatibility... but Python has its own bytecodes,
> doesn't it!
> 
> Suppose I wanted a program to be runnable on
> platforms like BSD, PowerPC
> Linux, PowerPC BSD, etc. without having to build on
> each of those.  If I
> were to distribute .pyo files, and users of all
> those platforms already had
> Python installed on their systems, could I build and
> distribute a single
> .pyo file?
> 
> If I do this project, I will directly support Win32,
> Mac, and x86 Linux.
> But I was hoping I could also distribute something
> that would be portable
> for everyone else outside these three platforms.  If
> .pyo files are
> cross-platform, then they are the solution I wanted.
> 
> The project I have in mind is a game, and I would
> use the Pygame library (a
> Python layer over SDL).  But I would like the game
> to run in a well-behaved
> window, with pull-down menus and dialogs and such,
> rather than taking over
> the whole screen as some SDL games do.  Thus my
> interest in Tkinter.
> --
> Steve R. Hastings		"Vita est"
> steve at hastings.org		http://www.blarg.net/~steveha
> -- 
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
> 
> 


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