Tkinter vs wxPython: your opinions?

[Christian Tanzer]

rwklee at home.com wrote :

> Thank you all for your thoughtful posts. On reflection, I would say my
> greatest need would be:
> 
> - being able to build data entry screens on the fly from a description of
> an object's attributes
> 
> I am still very naive about this; but I would have thought the need for
> this feature would crop up frequently.  I wonder why it doesn't seem to be
> featured in the popular toolkits.  Maybe it is extremely easy for anyone to
> build, in which case would someone care to post a working example.  Thanks.

Sorry, I can't easily post working code.

But your problem is easy to solve if you use a good geometry manager,
like Tkinter's pack or grid (grid being my preferred solution). 

For Tkinter, it looks like:

    body    = Frame (...)
    entries = []
    for entry_desc in «description of an object's attributes» :
        label = Label (master = body, text = entry_desc.name, ...)
        entry = Entry (master = body, ...)
        label.grid (column = 0, row = len (entries), ...)
        entry.grid (column = 1, row = len (entries), ...)
        entries.append (entry)
    body.grid_columnconfigure (0, weight = 1, minsize = ...)
    body.grid_columnconfigure (1, weight = 5, minsize = ...)
    boy.pack (...)

Shouldn't be any harder for a different toolkit, as long as it
offers decent geometry management.

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