python QT and windows

[Tom]

"Maurizio Turatti" <mturatti at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:39D1EEB5.31355B2C at yahoo.com...
> There is a wxWindows (C++) version built over GTK and one over Motif,
> both very nice indeed. wxPython is based on wxGTK only, not wxMotif.

That would imply that it uses the GTK widgets on windows (which do exist),
but it doesn't.  Didn't you mean  that wxPython wraps wxGTK or wxMSW?

> wxPython offers a very native look and feel both on Windows and Unix.
> You can download the Linux RPM or compile the source. I am running it on
> IRIX also. I think wxPython it's fast, easy to learn and offers a very
> rich set of widgets. From a Windows developer's point of view, I think
> wxWindows can resemble the MFC, but it's a lot cleaner in its design.

Yes, as an MFC developer, I too find wxWindows to be much better designed.
It's as if they decided to rewrite MFC.

> There's also a (commercial) GUI builder, called wxDesigner, which can
> produce both C++ and Python code.
>
> Maurizio
>
>
> Frank Miles wrote:
> >
> > In article <8qgb9d$8od$1 at news1.xs4all.nl>,
> > Boudewijn Rempt <boud at rempt.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> >
> > >wxPython is a wrapper around a wrapper around the native Windows
toolkit
> > >and offers a lot of good widgets and a sensible API. It's portable, but
> > >might be a bit difficult to install (at least, I am perpetually having
> > >problems installing it on Linux). Because it uses native Windows
widgets,
> > >you are assured of a good, native look and feel. That might not be the
> > >case with tkInter. I don't know about the Python 2.0 support.
> >
> > Perhaps I'm confused, but it appears to support GTK and Motif as well.
> > It was easy to install using the Debian distribution.
> >
> >         -frank
> > --