Re: Tkinter--does anyone use it for sophisticated GUI development?

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sturlamolden wrote:
  Its also a pity that no one didnt do something based on OpenGL with
  python (or maybe im wrong) it could be cool and really cross-platform.

 You are wrong. There are PyOpenGL and there is cross-platform GUI and
 game development platforms that use it (PyGTK, wxPython, PyGame). There
 are also PyOgre, which are more pythonic than using OpenGL directly.

I ment in the GUI context , a widget-based api where you can put
buttons, labels etc. on a form.
Not an advanced 3D stuff which is useless for such application.
Something like :
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~rademach/glui/
http://glow.sourceforge.net/
and sdl based
http://www.paragui.org/

but none have Python support (or again maybe im wrong)

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Re: Tkinter--does anyone use it for sophisticated GUI development?

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Kevin Walzer wrote:
 sturlamolden wrote:
  Christophe wrote:
 
  Nobody mentionned it, but I think you should try PyQT and PyGTK before
  wxPython. Myself, I do not like wx : it looks too much like the MFC.
 
  PyGTK is good, but GTK doesn't work that well on windows.
 
  GTK and PyGTK works well on Windows now. GTK used to be unstable on
  Windows, but that has been taken care of. I would not use anything else
  but PyGTK for GUI development in Python. Go here to get the Windows
  port:
 
  http://www.mapr.ucl.ac.be/~gustin/win32_ports/
 
  With PyGTK and GLADE, the GUI can be designed in GLADE and imported as
  an XML-resource (using libglade). It saves us of all the tedious
  GUI-programming. All that is needed is the event handlers, which we
  obviously have to code. When they are done, we simply put references to
  them in a dictionary, and tell libglade to dispacth on it. All the GUI
  programming crap is hidden away. Since there is no actual GUI code in
  Python, it also makes maintenance and upgrading much easier: The GUI
  can be redesigned in GLADE without affecting the Python code. Have you
  ever tried to change anything in an MFC project with Visual C++? It's a
  nightmare.
 
 I'm a Mac developer--Gtk does not run natively on the Mac (i.e. as an
 Aqua framework), only under X11. So that's a non-starter for me.

You have 2 choices then wxWidgets or Qt.
wx has also graphical editors like Glade (there is a wxGlade project)
giving a xml description of a window and its cross platform.
I know there are graphical for Qt but i dont know if theyre giving xml
or are just code-generators.
You could also do gui in Java or .Net and use python with their native
interpreter (jython is a bit outdated but IronPython is online)
You can also use a local web app with one of cool Python'ish web
frameworks -- id suggest TurboGears, but you can choose from many ill
mention Django (which is i think the biggest rival for TG)

On the other hand its a pity that there isnt much choice in cross
platform (win mac lin) GUI platforms until now i was a great fan of GTK
but there isnt a proper port for Mac.
Its also a pity that no one didnt do something based on OpenGL with
python (or maybe im wrong) it could be cool and really cross-platform.

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