Anyone need a program written?

[Jeff Bienstadt]

"Jeff Shannon" <jeff at ccvcorp.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1713c1ae2a7ecc1698968d at news.nwlink.com...
> In article <3ca9e2bd at news.nwlink.com>, jeffbi at jetsoft.com says...
> >
> > One of my other goals is to have a newsreader that works (as much as
> > possible) the same on both Linux and on Windows, so I was thinking
> > that using Tkinter for the GUI would probably be the best way to
accomplish
> > that.
>
> My personal recommendation would be to look at wxPython.  Tkinter
> is a bit easier to pick up, especially if you have no previous
> GUI experience, but it becomes difficult to do more complex
> things with it.  Also, Tkinter apps always *look* like Tkinter
> apps.  By contrast, wxPython (and wxWindows, which it wraps) uses
> the platform-native widgets wherever possible, so a wxPython app
> looks like a Windows app on Windows and a GTK app on Linux.
> wxPython is also more flexible than Tkinter, and it doesn't rely
> on another scripting language like Tkinter does (Tkinter relies
> on TCL).
>
> --

Thanks, Jeff.  I'll look into this.

I had heard of wxPython (seen it mentioned in various posts here)
but I hadn't made the connection (doh!) --- I didn't know it was a
wrapper around wxWindows, I just assumed it was another Win32
implementation of Python.

Thanks again,

---jkb