Learning Python - First Project

[KDawg44]

On Apr 23, 1:44 pm, kyoso... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Apr 23, 9:52 am, KDawg44 <KDaw... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hi,
>
> > I am new to Python and am trying to write a little front end to
> > another application in Python.
>
> > What I want is to have a gui pop up listing some items with several
> > buttons.  The guts of the program I am not having any trouble with but
> > the GUI part I am (or more accurately, the transition between GUI
> > pieces).
>
> > The first GUI that pops up lists some groups in a listbox and gives
> > the user the choice to create a new group, open a group, rename the
> > group, or delete the group.  The new group and rename group buttons
> > pop up a dialog gui asking for the name/new name.  The Open Group is
> > to open another GUI listing projects within that group in a list with
> > similar options (New Project, Open Project, Rename Project, Delete
> > Project).
>
> > My question is, how should I create all these GUIs?  Should each GUI
> > be its own class with its own __init__?  Then is the first GUI the
> > root (how I have it set up now) and all other GUIs using Toplevel()?
>
> > I hope this makes sense (because it only sort of makes sense in my
> > head).
>
> > THanks for any suggestions.
>
> I am assuming you are using Tkinter for your GUI front-end. You should
> be able to just use standard dialog boxes for your "new group" and
> "rename group" dialogs and a custom hand-coded dialog for the other
> one. All three can be called with ShowModal() instead of Toplevel().
> And yes, the custom dialog would work best if you made it into a
> separate class.
>
> You could also put that information for the GUI that list projects
> into a "tree" widget of some sort, maybe with a splitter window. I
> haven't had much luck with Tkinter's tree widgets though. PMW and Tix
> both have rather poor docs unless you enjoy man pages. You might check
> out wxPython instead. It has an excellent demo that is very good at
> showing you not only what all it can do, but how it is done:www.wxpython.org.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Mike

Thanks very much for your suggestions.  I think i will look into
wxPython, though I will finish this little app in tkinter since I am
almost done with it.

THanks for your help.