Am 11.06.2012 16:09, schrieb Mark Roseman: > On the Tkinter front, I just want to reiterate two important points that > are not nearly as well known as they should be. > > First, it is possible and in fact easy to do decent looking GUI's in > Tkinter, with the caveat that you do in fact have to do things very > slightly differently than you would have 15 years ago. Shocking, I know. Yes, but when I have the choice between Tkinter, Qt and wx, I still would go for wx or Qt (or stick to wx which I chose 12 years ago). I don't see the point of chosing Tkinter over the other toolkits.
> Second, there does exist at least one fairly good source of > documentation for new users wishing to do exactly this (according to > many, many comments I have received), though that documentation is > admittedly buried in a sea of out-of-date information that is still all > too easy to find. > > Please see http://www.tkdocs.com and in particular the tutorial there. The point of this thread is that Python is not attractive to casual users who want to implement some GUI programs. I don't see how that would change without an easy-to-use GUI builder, no matter how good the documentation is. Of course, it's possible to split up the documentation into many small building blocks which the user could copy & paste together. But then we have a poor-man's GUI builder. I doubt that it would attract new users. (For more straightforward tasks like hardware control / data acquisition I made good experiences with a Wiki-based approach of providing snippets. But *simple* GUIs are mainly visual and there should be a way to create them visually without consulting much documentation.) Regards, Dietmar -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
