GUI toolkits

morden morden at shadows.net
Thu Jan 9 16:25:10 EST 2003


Detlev Offenbach wrote:

> morden wrote:
>
>
> >Thomas Guettler wrote:
> >
> >
> >>morden schrieb:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Is there info availbale somewhere on the relative merits of tkinter
> >>>vs. pyGnome?
> >>
> >>
> >>I think comparing these makes no sense. Tkinter is for developing GUIs
> >>while Gnome is a desktop environment.
> >>
> >>You could compare tkinter, pyGtk and wxPython with each other.
> >
> >I've meant Tkinter and pyGtk. But I see by now what Tkinter more
> >popular so I'll try to give it a try first.
> >
> >
> >>There are comparisons available, but I have no ULR right now.
> >>
> >>May favorit, if you want to develop for win32 and unix is wxPython.
> >
> >Ok. I have a luxury to not care about win32 at this point.
> >And Tkinter seem to work on it also anyhow. Any selling points
> >for wxPython compared to Tkinter that you'd care to mention?
>
>
> You could try PyQt as well. IMHO, it has a better look and is easier to 

I was thinking of that. But I need to use this in a commerical app
eventually. We are in niche market with small volume and $20k for 5 
developer Qt commercial license is more than my employer can bear at 
this point. Other than that I agree. Qt seems to be miles ahead of Gtk.
I would've used that if there were no licensing issues.

> program. As an example for what you can do with it please see my Python
> IDE eric3 at http://www.die-offenbachs.de/detlev/eric3.html
>
Thank you for the URL. The screenshots look awesome.





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