Which GUI toolkit to use?

[John Gorman]

Hi Joshua,
   This question has surfaced several times on c.l.p.

See, for instance, past postings at google/dejanews...
(http://groups.google.com/groups?q=python+gui+group%3Acomp.lang.python.*&btnG=Google+Search&hl=en)

Cameron Laird maintains a list that has some useful pointers.
http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/comp.lang.python/python_GUI.html

Several of these work on multiple platforms.  I've had good success with 
wxPython code running successfully (w/o modification) on both Win2K and 
RH 7.2.

There are also gui builders available for wxPython/wxWindows 
(boa-constructor, wxDesigner) and pyQT (Black Adder) and pyGTk (glade). 
  As far as I know there are win32 versions of QT and GTk, so each of 
these three toolkits are accessible to Win platforms.

Cheers,
John Gorman


Joshua Muskovitz wrote:

> Specifics:
> 
> 1.  Needs to run on Windows platform.
> 2.  Needs to easily support completely custom paint (buttons, scrollers,
> listboxes, etc).
> 3.  Needs to handle simple input (editboxes, onLeftClick events).
> 
> The goal is to produce an app that runs full screen on a Win platform, and
> is interacted with via a touchscreen.  I would like to just paint the whole
> damn thing myself, but a widget manager will make input handling easier.
> There will be a lot of bitmaps making the whole thing pretty.
> 
> Tk seems like it is a pain to use, wxWindows seems like it doesn't make
> painting easy, pythonwin (win32ui) might be the way to go, ...
> 
> Decisions, decisions.  There wouldn't be anyone around here who has an
> opinion, is there?  :-)
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