[Pythonmac-SIG] NewBie question: Building GUI for Mac

Daniel Lord daniellord at mac.com
Fri Jun 6 08:55:39 CEST 2008


On Jun 5, 2008, at 23:42 PM, Abhiram Dwivedi wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I want to know if its possible to build a standalone GUI app for Mac  
> using python.

Yes it is.

> I need to build some application and still going through pythong  
> tutorials. It seems Cocoa is the only option,

Not true. wxPython, Tkinter, GTK, and others are all available. PyObjC/ 
Cocoa is Mac-only and the richest for a Mac-only app. There are trade- 
offs with every choice.

> but I want to be sure before moving away from python.

Using PyObjC (or any GUI framework) is not moving away from Python--it  
is using a platform-specific GUI framework as a UI adjunct to Python  
and little different from wxPtyhon or Tkinter except in platform scope.
>
>
> I need to integrate it with RSS and growl notifications as well.

I believe that can be done--try Googling for support: RSS is multi- 
platform while Growl is Mac-only.

>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Abhiram
>
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