Re: Cross-platform GUI development

2007-10-26 Thread Sion Arrowsmith
bramble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ GTK is ] free >software, so contributors can try and make the L&F more native if it's >really that big a deal. But the people who care about Windows native L&F are not the people with the resources (time, money, probably experience) to address this issue. An

Re: Cross-platform GUI development

2007-10-25 Thread bramble
On Oct 25, 6:32 am, "Chris Mellon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/24/07, bramble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In the end, GTK+ is themable, and it's a free software project, so if > > the MS Windows port has warts, anyone can come along and polish it up > > for that platform. > > There's be

Re: Cross-platform GUI development

2007-10-25 Thread Chris Mellon
On 10/24/07, bramble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 23, 2:59 pm, "Chris Mellon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/23/07, maco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > On Oct 13, 12:34 am, Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Qt doesn't look very native on my desktop. In

Re: Cross-platform GUI development

2007-10-24 Thread bramble
On Oct 12, 6:30 am, Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd recommend wxPython over those becase > > 1) native look and feel on all platforms > 2) doesn't require expensive licensing for non-commercial apps (QT) > 3) Isn't a pain to install on windows (GTK) > > That said, times change an

Re: Cross-platform GUI development

2007-10-24 Thread bramble
On Oct 23, 2:59 pm, "Chris Mellon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/23/07, maco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Oct 13, 12:34 am, Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Qt doesn't look very native on my desktop. In fact, Qt apps have always > > > looked out of place on a Gnome

Re: Cross-platform GUI development

2007-10-23 Thread Chris Mellon
On 10/23/07, maco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 13, 12:34 am, Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alexandre Badez wrote: > > > Personnaly, I use PyQt simply because I prefere Qt to Gtk, witch is > > > much more integrated with all desktop than Gtk. > > > In fact, your application

Re: Cross-platform GUI development

2007-10-23 Thread maco
On Oct 13, 12:34 am, Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexandre Badez wrote: > > Personnaly, I use PyQt simply because I prefere Qt to Gtk, witch is > > much more integrated with all desktop than Gtk. > > In fact, your application in Qt on Mac, Win or Linux look like a > > native app.

Re: Cross-platform GUI development

2007-10-15 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
David Tremouilles wrote: > "crappy", "waaay better" > I will not feed the troll... > Pygtk on mac just do the work for me on a more than satisfying way. I should have worded more carefully, it wasn't intended as trolling. Sorry for that. But the point I wanted to make still stands - the native

Re: Cross-platform GUI development

2007-10-15 Thread Kevin Walzer
David Tremouilles wrote: > "crappy", "waaay better" > I will not feed the troll... > Pygtk on mac just do the work for me on a more than satisfying way. > If that's the case, good for you. If your application is open-source, then perhaps it's not unreasonable to expect your users to adapt to t

Re: Cross-platform GUI development

2007-10-15 Thread Eric Brunel
On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 06:34:14 +0200, Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > You do have > to take pains to make the app "feel" native, though. Like follow the UI > guidelines of the platform, etc. You're absolutely right; I just wanted to add a precision: it's true for every too

Re: Cross-platform GUI development

2007-10-14 Thread David Tremouilles
"crappy", "waaay better" I will not feed the troll... Pygtk on mac just do the work for me on a more than satisfying way. David 2007/10/13, Diez B. Roggisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > David Tremouilles schrieb: > > No issue with pygtk on mac! > > Actually I develop on this platform everyday. Macport

Re: Cross-platform GUI development

2007-10-13 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
David Tremouilles schrieb: > No issue with pygtk on mac! > Actually I develop on this platform everyday. Macport take care of the > installation for me http://www.macports.org/ (Fink should do the work > too). > Of course native GTK on OSX could be nice but definitely not needed at > this point in

Re: Cross-platform GUI development

2007-10-13 Thread Kevin Walzer
David Tremouilles wrote: > No issue with pygtk on mac! > Actually I develop on this platform everyday. Macport take care of the > installation for me http://www.macports.org/ (Fink should do the work > too). > Of course native GTK on OSX could be nice but definitely not needed at > this point in ti

Re: Cross-platform GUI development

2007-10-13 Thread Dave Cook
On 2007-10-13, David Tremouilles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No issue with pygtk on mac! If running on top of X11 is no problem. > Actually I develop on this platform everyday. Macport take care of the > installation for me http://www.macports.org/ (Fink should do the work > too). In that case

Re: Cross-platform GUI development

2007-10-13 Thread David Tremouilles
No issue with pygtk on mac! Actually I develop on this platform everyday. Macport take care of the installation for me http://www.macports.org/ (Fink should do the work too). Of course native GTK on OSX could be nice but definitely not needed at this point in time. David 2007/10/13, Dave Cook <[E

Re: Cross-platform GUI development

2007-10-13 Thread Dave Cook
On 2007-10-13, David Tremouilles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would recommend pyGTK http://www.pygtk.org/ Native GTK on OSX is still in its infancy. For early adopters only at this point. See http://www.oreillynet.com/articles/author/2414 That leaves PyQt and WxPython as the only other rea

Re: Cross-platform GUI development

2007-10-13 Thread David Tremouilles
> anymore and people in tcl/tk moved onto better toolkits long ago. > > My question is if Tix is old hat, what is the GUI toolkit I *should* > be using for quick-n-dirty cross platform GUI development? I guess > this is tangentially related to: > > http://groups.google

Re: Cross-platform GUI development

2007-10-12 Thread Michael L Torrie
Alexandre Badez wrote: > Personnaly, I use PyQt simply because I prefere Qt to Gtk, witch is > much more integrated with all desktop than Gtk. > In fact, your application in Qt on Mac, Win or Linux look like a > native app. Qt doesn't look very native on my desktop. In fact, Qt apps have always l

Re: Cross-platform GUI development

2007-10-12 Thread David Boddie
On Fri Oct 12 12:30:13 CEST 2007, Nick Craig-Wood wrote: > I'd recommend wxPython over those becase > > 1) native look and feel on all platforms > 2) doesn't require expensive licensing for non-commercial apps (QT) "Expensive" licensing is not required if you use the GNU General Public License (

Re: Cross-platform GUI development

2007-10-12 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:30:13 -0500, Nick Craig-Wood wrote: > 3) Isn't a pain to install on windows (GTK) pygtk is easy to install on windows if you use cygwin. I started developing a little ssh GUI frontend on a windows laptop using cygwin pygtk and cygwin openssh. When I moved it over to a Li

Re: Cross-platform GUI development

2007-10-12 Thread Kevin Walzer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My question is if Tix is old hat, what is the GUI toolkit I *should* > be using for quick-n-dirty cross platform GUI development? I guess > this is tangentially related to: What widgets are you using in Tix? They may be available in BWidgets, Tableli

Re: Cross-platform GUI development

2007-10-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-10-12, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use wxPython, because it uses Gtk on Linux, and Gtk is > "native" for both me and for my Windows users. I didn't state that very well. What I meant was that wxPython uses Gtk under Linux (which is native for me) so wxPython looks nati

Re: Cross-platform GUI development

2007-10-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-10-12, BlueBird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'd recommend wxPython over those becase >> >> 1) native look and feel on all platforms Not true for KDE or other non-Gtk desktops. > You get it with PyQt as well. Not true for Gnome or other non-Qt desktops. There is no single "native look

Re: Cross-platform GUI development

2007-10-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-10-12, Alexandre Badez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Personnaly, I use PyQt simply because I prefere Qt to Gtk, > witch is much more integrated with all desktop than Gtk. So you're claiming Qt is much more integrated with Gnome than Gtk? The mind wobbles. The Gnome and XFCE desktops are _

Re: Cross-platform GUI development

2007-10-12 Thread Peter Decker
On 10/12/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My question is if Tix is old hat, what is the GUI toolkit I *should* > be using for quick-n-dirty cross platform GUI development? I would heartily recommend Dabo (http://dabodev.com). It wraps the wxPython toolkit, but elimi

Re: Cross-platform GUI development

2007-10-12 Thread Eric Brunel
d a lot of unmet dependencies. I then > read a post which said that only Tkinter/Python people really use Tix > anymore and people in tcl/tk moved onto better toolkits long ago. > > My question is if Tix is old hat, what is the GUI toolkit I *should* > be using for quick-n-dirty cr

Re: Cross-platform GUI development

2007-10-12 Thread BlueBird
On Oct 12, 12:30 pm, Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My question is if Tix is old hat, what is the GUI toolkit I *should* > > > be using for quick-n-dirty cross platform GUI development? I guess > > > this is tangentially related to: >

Re: Cross-platform GUI development

2007-10-12 Thread Nick Craig-Wood
Alexandre Badez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 12, 10:13 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My question is if Tix is old hat, what is the GUI toolkit I *should* > > be using for quick-n-dirty cross platform GUI development? I g

Re: Cross-platform GUI development

2007-10-12 Thread Alexandre Badez
ot of unmet dependencies. I then > read a post which said that only Tkinter/Python people really use Tix > anymore and people in tcl/tk moved onto better toolkits long ago. > > My question is if Tix is old hat, what is the GUI toolkit I *should* > be using for quick-n-dirty cross

Cross-platform GUI development

2007-10-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
better toolkits long ago. My question is if Tix is old hat, what is the GUI toolkit I *should* be using for quick-n-dirty cross platform GUI development? I guess this is tangentially related to: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/2ed58ff6ac7d030c/42ed0d40ffd0b1c0?l