On 11/18/09 4:15 PM, Simon Hibbs wrote:
On 17 Nov, 23:25, Kevin Walzer<k...@codebykevin.com> wrote:
On 11/17/09 4:25 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
+1 Tkinter for the simple stuff
You can actually use Tkinter to do quite sophisticated GUI's that rival
anything found in Qt or wx...
Neither Tkinteror Wx have anything that come close to QGraphicsView,
the Model-View-Delegate framework, the Phonon multimedia framework
integration, QtSQL, QtXML, QtSVG, and the many other first grade
components in Qt. You can substitute components from other frameworks,
e.g. for database access, but then you lose the integration QtSQL has
with the model-view-delegate features in other parts of the Qt world.
A few points of response:
-I was focusing primarily on the UI bits, not the other parts of Qt.
People tend to think that Tkinter only has labels, listboxes, buttons
and menus: recent advances in Tk have greatly expanded and modernized
the available widgets. There's also a rich econsystem of widget packages
within Tk that can be wrapped in Tkinter.
-Qt's support for things like SQL and XML make sense in a Pythonic
context mainly if you're focusing on their integration with other parts
of Qt. Python has many of these things just fine on its own, as you
doubtless know.
Qt is much more than just a GUI framework, it's more of a rival to
something like the MacOS development libraries, or the .NET framework
in terms of the library facilities it offers. I think that's why Nokia
bought into it. Qt provides them with a platform with the potential to
rival the iPhone dev environment.
Of course, and I certainly wasn't claiming otherwise.
Of course to take full advantage of it you need to invest in learning
it all, which is non-trivial. It comes at a cost in time and potential
lock-in. But the point is you can't just say Qt is just like Wx.
wxWidgets (the C++ library) has support for a lot of things other than
UI bits, as well. wxPython itself is mainly a GUI library because the
additional features of wxWidgets in C++ are redundant in Python.
--Kevin
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