[Tutor] Gui recommendations requested: Which GUI wxPython or PyQT ?

[Tony Cappellini]

Thanks Magnus.

> If you want *only* Win32, there are a few ways to write
> MFC programs in Python, but I don't think it's very
> common.
My main concern is for Win32 at the moment, but it would be nice if I
could get implicit cross- platform compatibility, without jumping through
hoops.
(I promise not to directly call the win API or MFC from my code) :-)

> Why just these two? There seems to be four main condenders for
> Python (not Jython) today: Tkinter, wxPython, PyQt and PyGtk.

Because TKinter seems so limited, and it's look and feel is plain.

> PyQt is only freely available in a GPL version on Linux.
I can't understand that- but ok.

> I haven't used PyGtk either, but it's used by for instance
> WingIDE. It's been rather ugly-looking on Windows, but there
> are now themes that will make it look like a Windows 2000
> or XP app, but I have just seen screenshots of that. I don't
> know if there is anything odd with the behaviour.

>
> Finally, wxPython is the toolkit I use, but I can't really
> say I'm such an expert in the others that I know that it's

> There are also minor players like PyFox, AnyGUI and PyFLTK.
> And if you run Jython, swing will be the obvious choise.

I've narrowed it down to the two main GUI's I felt (with my miniscule
experience and time behind the Python helm) were the more-prominent.

I've installed Boa & wx Python and am going through the tutorial.
Pretty good functionality for the alpha version.



thanks for your input.

Tony