[python-win32] Win32 GUI for beginners.

Sean Murphy mhysnm1964 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 1 07:52:06 CET 2014


All,

thanks for the information. I will look into it. In relation to Tim's comment. The reason why I want to stick to Win32 API's is because I am blind. The screen reader which allows me to use the computer does not work with Xwindow style widgets.  They have to be native Windows style objects. 

That is the challenge I have in front of me in finding a GUI library that works with my screen reader.

I do have some knowledge of Event driven, OOPS programming. But it is very basic and normally I use other peoples codes. :-)

I am in the middle of writing a Telnet app to send a huge config to my router which is one of my learning steps. :-)

Sean 
On 01/01/2014, at 7:06 AM, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:

> Sean Murphy wrote:
>> I am very very new to Python. I have read the book on programming for Windows with Python that was released in 2000. The book is very good but doesn't give me the basic information I am seeking. Since I am a beginner programmer.
> 
> I want to caution you that you have an awful lot of fundamental concepts
> to get down before you're ready to tackle something like this.  You have
> to learn the Python language, which means learning the concepts of
> class-based and object-oriented programming.  After getting
> straight-line programming, you'll have to learn the concepts of
> event-driven programming, which is the paradigm used by all of the
> modern GUIs.  Then, you'll need to learn the idiosyncracies of whatever
> GUI library you choose, all of which make compromises to mate with the
> variations in the operating systems they support.
> 
> 
>> I want to create a GUI windows app with Python. The program has to use default Windows 32 or 64 bit objects.
> 
> I'm curious to know what you meant by that.  Do you simply mean you
> don't want to buy any components?  Because essentially all of the major
> Python GUI toolkits have their own library of components that are vastly
> simpler to use than the SDK components.
> 
> If you REALLY just want to write an MFC program in Python, it's possible
> to do that using pywin32, but it's not really very Python-like.
> 
> -- 
> Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
> 
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