Future of PythonWin?

[Boudewijn Rempt]

Tom <tom-main at removeme.home.com> wrote:

> I agree that MFC seems to be on the way out, but there are two things that
> prevent me (and some other MFC developers) from switching:
> 1) The CodeTools & CodeGuru sites contains TONS of peer reviewed code (in
> the form of messages at the end of every article) that is free, even for
> commercial use.  80% of this code is in the form of MFC extensions.
> 2) What's next?
> - STL?  Yes, but that's not a GUI.
> - ATL & WTL?  Too MS only.
> - wxWindows?  Only has a tiny fraction of the number of users & code that
> the other options have.
> - TCL/TK?  I've heard this is slow, and it can't create native windows' apps
> (users want the windows look & feel).
> - Java?  Again, too proprietary.

There's another option, of course. You could use Qt (and PyQt), which
works on Windows and Unix/X11, offers a great GUI and a good design.
And there are tons of programs using it you can look at & learn from.
(Not to mention the great documentation.)

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