PyFLTK - an underrated gem for GUI projects

[Peter Hansen]

aum wrote:
> To me, wxPython is like a 12-cylinder Hummer, with fuzzy dice hanging
> from the mirror, fridge and microwave in the back, and DVD consoles on
> every seat, towing a campervan - absolute power and luxury, giving 8mpg
> if you're lucky.
> 
> wxPython has the cost of a massive disk and memory footprint. A 'hello,
> world' turned into a windoze exe with py2exe weighs in at around 15MB,
> and takes 6-10 seconds to load up on a 2GHz Athlon box, about as long as
> Photoshop! For large and intricate apps, wxPython is a logical choice,
> but for smaller progs it's serious overkill IMHO.

While I don't disagree with your characterization above, I don't think 
your numbers are quite right.

The wxPython program below, py2exe'd on my machine (1.6GHz Pentium M), 
comes to only 12MB (2-3MB of which is Python itself), and takes 1-2 
seconds to load (actually less than one second after the first 
invocation following a fresh reboot).

Yes, 12MB is pretty heavy, but if it's taking that long to load I think 
something might be wrong on your machine.

(Python 2.4, wx 2.6.1.0, py2exe 0.6.3, Win XP SP2)

-Peter
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import wx

class Frame(wx.Frame):
     def __init__(self):
         wx.Frame.__init__(self, None, -1, "Hello")

         self.Bind(wx.EVT_PAINT, self.OnPaint)
         self.Show(True)


     def OnPaint(self, event):
         dc = wx.PaintDC(self)
         dc.DrawText('Hello, world!', 10, 10)


app = wx.PySimpleApp()
f = Frame()
app.MainLoop()