Best GUI for small-scale accounting app?

Phil Thompson phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk
Tue Dec 21 04:32:21 EST 2004


> I admit that I don't know much about Qt in Windows.  As, I said, I've
> never seen it.  The fact that they don't offer a GPLed version for
> Windows is a deterrent for me.
>
> I have heard very nice things about Qt's api.  I even bought a book on
> it, but since the apps I've needed to write, had to be cross platform,
> and were nicely done in wxPython/PythonCard on Windows *for free*, I
> haven't been able to justify the time to look at it.
>
> Question for you, does Qt use the native Windows dialogs and widgets or
> does it use its own?  If the latter, how close are they to the native
> look?  Will they change appearance when a user chooses a different
> theme in the Display Dialog?

By default Qt uses it's own except for the file dialog. By default the
native file dialog is used (but it can be disabled by reseting a bool that
isn't wrapped by PyQt). The same applies to MacOS.

Phil




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