Still on python GUI toolkit
Prabhu Ramachandran
prabhu at aero.iitm.ernet.in
Tue Nov 20 09:17:19 EST 2001
>>>>> "LF" == Luca Fini <lfini at arcetri.astro.it> writes:
LF> I'm trying to make a sound decision of which GUI toolkit to
LF> use for a new software project (it is the control and
[snip]
LF> After browsing through the various comparisons I could find
LF> around I stripped down the list to three of them: Tkinter,
LF> wxWindows, PyQt.
One big advantage of Tkinter over almost any other toolkit is that you
can use/script an application written with it directly from the Python
interpreter on different platforms. This can be *very* powerful. To
do this with wxPython you have to do something like what scipy's
gui_thread does which is not a clean enough solution. I have no idea
about pyQt.
LF> 3. wxWindows and PyQt are richer than Tkinter in that they
LF> both provide more complex widgets and more control on many
LF> aspects. I've also the feeling that PyQt/wxWindows
True, but Tkinter is very basic. To look at *much* nicer
controls/widgets that are much better looking I'd urge you to look at
Tix.
http://tix.sourceforge.net
I myself found this only recently - but it looks _really_ nice and
IIRC is part of Python >= 2.1. So maybe you should look at this too.
prabhu
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