GUI toolkits

[Eddie Corns]

Stefano Vedovelli <spinwing at inwind.it> writes:

>Hello all

>in my spare time I am writing a tool in python, with the intention of 
>deliver it under GPL.

>I am now starting to approach the GUI part. I have read a lot about Tkinter, 
>PyQT and wxWindows, but I am now actually even more confused.

>As the interface will be "quite" rich, I'd like to know the opinions of 
>people who already faced this decision, which tool they have chosen and 
>why.

Being a bit of a perfectionist, when I was looking at GUI toolkits I spent
quite some time comparing them.  My end conclusion was that not only does Qt
offer better widgets than all the others it offers a much better architecture
too.  This gives you more flexibility in what you can actually achieve.

The learning curve is steeper though, especially if you want to understand
_all_ the things it can do.  I have the 'Programming Qt' book which is quite
good even though it's based on C++ and the supplied manual is excellent (once
you get the hang of it all).  I don't have the Python Qt book yet because it
hasn't arrived in any of the many bookshops I frequent, from the online
version I think it doesn't go into as much depth as I would like.

Eddie