RAD with Python
Bruno Desthuilliers
bdesth.nospam at removeme.free.fr
Wed Oct 15 16:44:29 EDT 2003
Ubaidullah Nubar wrote:
>>>I will appreciate some more clarification regarding the GUI framework.
>>>From the wxPython web site, it looks very good but the two tools
>>>mentioned here
>>>for easing the development of GUI apps (mojoview and kiwi) are both
>>>based on GTK.
>>>
>>>Are they fundamentally different or just a matter of style.
>>
>>Well, pyGTK and wxPython are Python-language wrappers or bindings
>>around two separate GUI toolkits, GTK+ and wxWindows. As such, the
>>code details will wind up being different. I suspect, though I have
>>no experience with pyGTK, that differences will be mostly syntactic
>>and that overall coding thought processes will be mostly similar. Can
>>anyone else confirm/deny?
>
>
> If they both have a similar style, then that would be good as it will
> be easy to convert from one to the other easily. Otherwise, one would
> have to be extra-cautious before selecting the framework for large
> projects.
>
I'm not sure that such a conversion would be that easy... But anyway why
converting, since (at least on most linux distros) wxWindows uses GTK+ ?
just my 2 cents
Bruno
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