If you come from visual basic, I suggest to use pythoncard GUI, which is very simple to develop with a Ressource Editor (create a panel, see labwindows, visual basic ..).
https://sourceforge.net/projects/vb2py/ a package to transform VB to pythoncard http://www.linux2000.com/pimp.html a pythoncard application Philippe DALET Lyp champollion 46100 FIGEAC FRANCE [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > I am trying to learn GUI programming in Python, but have to confess I > am finding it difficult. > > I am not an experienced programmer - just someone who from time to > time writes small programs for my use. Over the years I have moved > from GWBASIC to QBASIC to Visual Basic, and now trying to move across > to a Linux platform. Python seems to be the best compromise between > the limitations of command line basic programming and the total > incomprehensibility of C. > > Googling around it seems the best GUI is either Tkinter or PyGtk. I > found a book which recommended PyGtk, as it had a graphical design > option, Glade. Coming from a VB background I latched onto that and > bought the book (Beginning Python, Wrox), but it was a disappointment > (or more accurately a complete waste of money) - there was > insufficient detail in the text. > > I've found the tutorial and reference manual on the PyGtk web site, > but although I've made some progress, I keep reaching points where I > have insufficient background to understand them. Currently I'm stuck > on dialog boxes (the code seems immensely complex for the equivalent of > MsgBox("Do you really want to do this ",vbYesNo) and I haven't > got it to work properly yet) and loading graphical images in anything > other than their original size, but every new step brings another > struggle > > I've seen reference to a Tkinter book - something like 'Python > and Tkinter Programming' but it seems to be out of print and > unavailable. > > Can anyone offer any suggestions as to the least painful way forwards? > > (Email address was valid once but has long since been abandoned to > spam. Please rely via newsgroup) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
