GUI suggestions

[Boudewijn Rempt]

Doug Farrell <writeson at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Alex,

> Thank you very much for the great feedback on GUI's with Pyton. I probably
> should have mentioned the utility program I write in C++ that is getting the
> GUI frontend run on Sun Solaris, so I'm not to concerned with cross platform
> development, at least for this application. I'm kind of baised towards using
> wxPython as I've done some reading and downloaded the system and tried the
> demos. I will look at Tkinker as well since I have no knowledge of that on
> which to base a decision, as of yet anyway.

> This last year I jumped ship from MS windows development and joined an
> online group doing CGI on the Sun platform. After getting up to speed a
> little bit on Unix/Linux I honestly can say I don't know why I waited so
> long!! Windows falls short in many areas that Unix has in spades. Though I
> liked developing VC6, I didn't like all of the holes and 'guru only'
> knowledge that was necessary to get a program to run well under Windows and
> MFC.

If you're working on Unix then your choice is probably widest. For
instance, PyQt, Qt and Qt Designer are absolutely free on Unix. In 
fact, someone with a developers license for Qt for Windows can
distribute a compiled version of Qt Designer together with the
source - it's GPL, after all. If you come from a C++ background I'd
go with either wxPython or PyQt, since both translate nicely back and
forth. You can even design the GUI in Qt Designer and generate both
Python and C++ source code.

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