Python GUIs: Abandoning TkInter and welcoming wxPython?

[Robert Kern]

On Thu, 1 Jul 1999 23:16:00 -0500, Travis Oliphant <olipt at mayo.edu>
wrote:

>
>This has been a very interesting discussion on GUI's.
>
>It struck me that all this talk of a cross-platform GUI might be
>preventing a lot of very good GUI's from being used.
>
>So, I looked in to PyGtk and PyGnome (with its Gnome Canvas) and I'm
>impressed.  Right now it fits what I want to do very well and it works on
>systems with an X server (aren't X servers available for MAC's and
>Windows?)  

Not for free.  Well, Microimage's X server, MI/X, is freely avialable
for Windows and Mac, but it's only approximately X11R5 compliant
(http://www.microimages.com/freestuf/mix/mix.htm).  PyGTK and PyGnome
are unlikely to work with it satisfactorily.  Heck, tkinter doesn't
work satisfactorily with it.

Starnet does have an X11R6 server for Windows for which they give away
a free demo that has a 2 hour time limit per run, although it can be
restarted again.  (http://www.starnet.com/demo.htm)

There is a project in progress to port XFree86 to Windows with the
Cygwin tools.  Everything compiles now; we just need to wait a little
before it runs.  :-)

GTK+ for Windows (http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/) still hasn't
had enough of the libraries ported to compile PyGTK.  This could
change soon, though.

>So, I'm happy with it. If you're in the same situation you
>might like it too.  I tend to agree that there is plenty of room for more
>than one GUI.
>
>Travis Oliphant

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