[Tutor] GUI

Marc Tompkins marc.tompkins at gmail.com
Mon Feb 2 22:48:47 CET 2015


On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:

> On 02/02/2015 20:59, Marc Tompkins wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Don't expect a whole heap of support from the GUIs. A lot of the work
>>> will
>>> have to come from you.
>>> I suspect the standard GUI framework Tkinter is not going to be your best
>>> bet. You might find that PyQt or PyGTK will offer better multi lingual
>>> support  (although thats just a guess on my part!).
>>>
>>>
>> Might I also suggest wxPython?  I tried Tk and Qt early on, but found that
>> wx fit my needs much better (and I like the looks of the result better
>> too.)
>> I have little to no experience with LTR handling myself, but there's a
>> very
>> good, active support list for wxPython and I suspect that someone on that
>> list may have insights that can help...
>> wxpython-users at googlegroups.com
>>
>
> For the type of work the OP has previously described I doubt that wxPython
> fits the bill as the Python 3 version called Phoenix is still in
> development.  More here http://wiki.wxpython.org/ProjectPhoenix
>

Still under development, true - but all but a few of the controls are up
and running, and a lot of the people on the list are using Phoenix now.
(Not I - I'm still using 2.7 - but I've been following developments with
interest.)


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