Kenneth McDonald schrieb: > Is there any emerging consensus on the "best" UI for toolkit. Tk never > quite made it but from what I can see, both qt and wxWin are both doing > fairly well in general. I'm already aware of the licensing issues > surrounding qt (fwiw, I think their license fee for commercial use is > eminently reasonable), so aside from that, I was wondering if there was > any feedback readers could provide on the following: [snip]
As for my experience with Python-integrated GUI toolkits: I tried wxWidgets/Boa and had it crashing on me all over the place. I switched to GTK/glade2 and fought with it for a couple of days until I ran away screaming. Next, I tried Qt/Designer and the more I learned, the more I knew I'd keep loving it. Its Python bindings are not perfect, especially QStrings will annoy you. You will notice that it was originally designed for C++ and had to try hard to reimplement a lot of the batteries that Python has included, so it often uses its own concepts where Python concepts would feel a bit nicer. But once you accept that, you will really like its clean design that helps you with your work. A friend of mine switched to Mac-OS X recently and I told him to use Qt for one of his projects. He is a Debian developer and did all of his previous GUIs with GTK. It took him only a couple of hours to fall in love with it. He was especially mad about the fact that it looks completely like a Mac application on Mac-OS and like a Windows application on Windows. It even felt like a native app. Just try it, you'll see. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list