Gui Advice Needed: wxPython or PyQT ?

[Jim Richardson]

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On Tue, 06 May 2003 18:38:06 -0400,
 Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
> Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>> 
>> Peter Hansen wrote:
>> 
>> >
>> > Very brief experimentation, *and* a look at the demo apps (to note
>> > Riccardo's point), were all it took to make me feel this way, and
>> > I would actually recommend that *regardless* of the advice of the
>> > experts (their accuracy and thoroughness notwithstanding), a new
>> > user should still try out both wxPython and PyQT before settling on
>> > either.
>> 
>> Trying out is a good idea -- I tried out literally everything, up to and
>> including Amulet -- when I was looking for a toolkit before settling on
>> PyQt. However, I must say that it can be quite hard to get the toolkits
>> themselves up and running. I still haven't managed to get a working
>> wxPython installation on my SuSE systems; even though PyGTK on OS X was a
>> breeze (thanks to Fink). PyQt can be a bit of a nut to crack before it
>> runs, unless you buy BlackAdder. And even Tkinter isn't always as easy to
>> get running.
> 
> Sadly, I suppose that is true on some non-Windows systems.  Thankfully
> for us luser Windows users :-), the Win32 installers for Python, wxPython,
> and most other packages (presumably even PyQT) are effectively capable
> of being used by someone without a working brain (like me, some days).
> (Huge heaps of kudos here to Mark Hudson, Robin Dunn, and no doubt
> some others.)
> 
> I recall being quite pleasantly surprised by how I could install wxPython,
> click on the Demo icon, and see the huge expanse of available power from
> the framework, all running (nearly) flawlessly on my machine.
> 
> -Peter

apt-get install pyqt

gotta love Debian...

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