Cross-platform GUI app -- Tkinter?

[Bernhard Reiter]

In article <3b4e211f$1 at news.blarg.net>,
	steveha at animal.blarg.net (Steve R. Hastings) writes:

> If I want to make a GUI application with menus and such, and I want it to
> be easily portable to multiple platforms, what is the best way to do it?

	www.wxpython.org (IMO)

> Actually, do I need the expensive book?  Is there a web site you like that
> explains Tkinter well?

I guess a good book will be worth the price.

> In a perfect world, I'd like my Python program to be compiled to Java
> bytecodes and thus theoretically portable anywhere.  Does the use of
> Tkinter make this impossible?  

Java is not as portable as you might think.
When you start depending on libraries it gets system dependend
pretty fast. Even C might be more portable.

> I know I could use GLADE to design my app, and it would run great in Gtk+
> on Linux... if Gtk+ has been made portable to other systems (Win32, Mac)
> then Gtk+ might be better for me than Tkinter.

Gtk+ runs on W32 platforms.

I generally recommend wyPython because of two major reasons:
	- uses native widgets
	- is not just a widget set, but an application framework

Bernhard

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