On Mar 10, 3:33 pm, Mike Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 10, 2:11 pm, Stefan Behnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Malcolm Greene wrote: > > >> My personal experience with wxPython has its ups and downs. Specifically > > >> when it comes to crashes, I wouldn't bet my life on it. > > > > I'm new to Python and getting ready to build a small client based > > > application intended to run on Windows and Linux. I was planning on using > > > wxPython until I saw your comment above. > > > Just to make this sound a bit less like FUD: my last experience with > > wxPython > > dates back a couple of years (2004/5?), but back then, we used > > BoaConstructor > > in a project, which crashed a bit too often to do real work with it - and > > with > > crashing I mean crashing Python, not just showing us its blank traceback. So > > this was definitely a problem either in wxWindows or in wxPython. > > > I have no idea how well it works today, but this has definitely forged my > > opinion on wxPython. > > > > Any suggestions on an alternative Python client-side GUI library (pyQT ?) > > > or tips on where I can find out more about wxPython/wxWidget problems? > > > The only other GUI library I used was PyQT3. To me, it has proven to be very > > stable, pretty easy to use and feature rich. And from what I read about it, > > PyQT4 is supposed to be another lot better and has removed the few API > > quirks > > I found at the time (AFAIR, it finally returns plain Python strings from the > > API, for example). > > > Stefan > > I agree with Stef. Boa is definitely goofy and while I know some > people swear by it, I see far too many people having issues. I go with > hand coding or XRC. Some also like SPE, but I haven't tried that to > know. > > Mike
SPE is actually a very good editor--I'm using it for all my Python coding. It integrates well with wxglade, and wxpython, and is built on wxpython. I've used wxpython on a couple of little projects, and it works very well (on Linux, anyways). I'm starting a couple of bigger projects now, and am confident that it will scale up, seeing some of the projects that are using it. I've tried Boa a couple of times but, for me, the interface sucks, and is not very intuitive. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
