Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-10 Thread invitro81
Hello I've recently learnt python and I do love it! I congratulate all those geeks who produce this nice language; well, because I could be called a nearby newbee I've decided to improve my abilities by writing my own nice editor with python; so I've to choose among all those GUI toolkit's ava

Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-10 Thread dimitri pater
Hi,in stead of going for the "traditional" GUIS like wxPython, PyGtk and the like, you could consider using a browser based GUI. Try CherryPy for instance.  See also here: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/442481regards,Dimitri On 3/10/06, invitro81 < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-10 Thread Peter Decker
On 3/10/06, invitro81 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I've no idea which one I should use to start with.. I've read that > tkinter seems to be the de facto standart in the pyhon community; but > why? Is it the best available one or are theire other reasons? I read > also a litte about wxpython an

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-10 Thread Cell
invitro81 schreef: > Hello > > I've recently learnt python and I do love it! I congratulate all those > geeks who produce this nice language; well, because I could be called a > nearby newbee I've decided to improve my abilities by writing my own > nice editor with python; so I've to choose among

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-10 Thread Eric Brunel
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 13:36:18 +0100, invitro81 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > I've recently learnt python and I do love it! I congratulate all those > geeks who produce this nice language; well, because I could be called a > nearby newbee I've decided to improve my abilities by writing

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-10 Thread Thomas Guettler
Am Fri, 10 Mar 2006 13:36:18 +0100 schrieb invitro81: > Hello > > I've recently learnt python and I do love it! I congratulate all those > geeks who produce this nice language; well, because I could be called a > nearby newbee I've decided to improve my abilities by writing my own > nice edito

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-10 Thread Sybren Stuvel
Thomas Guettler enlightened us with: > The licence for QT is GPL, this means you cannot use it in > commercial application. That is why I never looked at it. Ehmm... from their website: The Qt Commercial License is the correct license to use for the construction of proprietary, commercial softwar

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-10 Thread Alan Franzoni
invitro81 on comp.lang.python said: > again to make a choice is difficult; is there also some guy liking pyqt > is it worse or should it be avoided because of the licencing policy for > qt (which I also like..)? > > * Which one is the most fun to program with? > * Which one is the

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-11 Thread David Boddie
Alan Franzoni wrote: > FLTK was interesting but seems to lack maintenance and support, Looking at the News section of the project's home page, I can see that updates were few and far between in 2004 and 2005, but the action seems to have picked up again since: http://pyfltk.sourceforge.net/#ne

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-11 Thread Michael Ekstrand
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 00:07:52 +0100 Alan Franzoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > again to make a choice is difficult; is there also some guy liking > > pyqt is it worse or should it be avoided because of the licencing > > policy for qt (which I also like..)? > > > > * Which one is the most fun

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-11 Thread Roger Binns
"invitro81" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > But I've no idea which one I should use to start with.. One thing you'll need to carefully decide is where you want to end up. The different toolkits have different limits on where you can go. A simple example is printing

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-12 Thread invitro81
You guys are great :) thanx for the plenty answers and suggestions; I've made my search through a little more and decided to start coding the same app first with pygtk and second with wxpython.. and perhaps later with pyqt. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-13 Thread Thomas Guettler
Am Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:10:09 +0100 schrieb Sybren Stuvel: > Thomas Guettler enlightened us with: >> The licence for QT is GPL, this means you cannot use it in >> commercial application. That is why I never looked at it. > > Ehmm... from their website: >From http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/l

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-13 Thread Sybren Stuvel
Thomas Guettler enlightened us with: > There is a GPL version for Linux. But the GPL does not allow linking > with closed source software. The availability of a GPL license does not negate the availability of a commercial license. You can write commercial, closed source software on Linux using Qt

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-13 Thread Paul Boddie
Thomas Guettler wrote: > > Have you read all the text? > > """ > Two qualities of the Qt Commercial License should be emphasized: > > You need it before you start development of proprietary software. > > You must purchase a Qt Commercial License from Trolltech or from any of > its authorized resell

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-13 Thread Paul Rubin
"Paul Boddie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What people don't usually understand (or rather complain about loudly) > is that Trolltech can refuse to license Qt to you under the commercial > licence, as is their right as the owner of the copyrighted work. What is the deal here? Why would they refu

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-13 Thread Chris Mellon
On 13 Mar 2006 10:19:05 -0800, Paul Rubin <"http://phr.cx"@nospam.invalid> wrote: > "Paul Boddie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What people don't usually understand (or rather complain about loudly) > > is that Trolltech can refuse to license Qt to you under the commercial > > licence, as is thei

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-13 Thread Paul Boddie
Paul Rubin wrote: > "Paul Boddie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What people don't usually understand (or rather complain about loudly) > > is that Trolltech can refuse to license Qt to you under the commercial > > licence, as is their right as the owner of the copyrighted work. > > What is the de

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-13 Thread ahart
i'm pretty much a newbie, too, and have been dabbling with some gui tools so far, i like pythoncard pretty well it wraps wxpython and seems to be pretty easy to use -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-14 Thread Alan Franzoni
Paul Boddie on comp.lang.python said: > Now, since the commercial licence is "per developer", some cunning > outfit could claim that only one developer wrote their product (rather > than one hundred developers, say), but this would be a fairly big > breach of trust (although nothing unusual in th

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-14 Thread Antoon Pardon
Op 2006-03-13, Paul Boddie schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Paul Rubin wrote: >> "Paul Boddie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > What people don't usually understand (or rather complain about loudly) >> > is that Trolltech can refuse to license Qt to you under the commercial >> > licence, as is their

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-14 Thread Paul Boddie
Alan Franzoni wrote: > > Just one thing I don't understand: if you're developing all your software > inside your company, how would they know if you already coded it or you > still have to? I have no idea. But as I said elsewhere, I'm not in any sense a party to the process that would attempt to d

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-14 Thread Chris Mellon
On 14 Mar 2006 06:10:19 -0800, Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan Franzoni wrote: > > > > Just one thing I don't understand: if you're developing all your software > > inside your company, how would they know if you already coded it or you > > still have to? > > I have no idea. But as I

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-22 Thread Piet van Oostrum
> Michael Ekstrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (ME) wrote: >ME> I've used both wxPython and PyGTK. I find wxPython to be horribly >ME> un-pythonic; combining that some problems on the Mac, and some >ME> other installation/environment issues, I ditched it for PyGTK. But AFAIK GTK doesn't have a native

Re: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?

2006-03-22 Thread Renato
Hardly a showstopper: gtk works now (with X11), and will work even better soon (native). :-) -- Ciao, Renato -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Bear not false witness (was: Which GUI toolkit is THE best?)

2006-03-10 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Guettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . . >tkinter (or better TK) has no good table widget. . . . http://tkinter.un