Which GUI toolkit to use?

[Cliff Wells]

On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 20:07:41 -0500
Joshua Muskovitz wrote:

> Specifics:
> 
> 1.  Needs to run on Windows platform.
> 2.  Needs to easily support completely custom paint (buttons, scrollers,
> listboxes, etc).
> 3.  Needs to handle simple input (editboxes, onLeftClick events).
> 
> The goal is to produce an app that runs full screen on a Win platform,
and
> is interacted with via a touchscreen.  I would like to just paint the
whole
> damn thing myself, but a widget manager will make input handling easier.
> There will be a lot of bitmaps making the whole thing pretty.
> 
> Tk seems like it is a pain to use, wxWindows seems like it doesn't make
> painting easy, pythonwin (win32ui) might be the way to go, ...

What do you mean "custom paint"?  I highly recommend wxPython.  If you are
referring to putting bitmaps on windows, buttons, etc, this is very doable
in wxPython.

> Decisions, decisions.  There wouldn't be anyone around here who has an
> opinion, is there?  :-)
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