How to get started in GUI Programming?

David Boddie davidb at mcs.st-and.ac.uk
Fri Nov 25 12:25:37 EST 2005


peter.mosley at talk21.com wrote:
> I am trying to learn GUI programming in Python, but have to confess I
> am finding it difficult.
>
> I am not an experienced programmer - just someone who from time to
> time writes small programs for my use.  Over the years I have moved
> from GWBASIC to QBASIC to Visual Basic, and now trying to move across
> to a Linux platform.  Python seems to be the best compromise between
> the limitations of command line basic programming and the total
> incomprehensibility of C.
>
> Googling around it seems the best GUI is either Tkinter or PyGtk.

You might also want to try PyQt:

    http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pyqt/

I'm sure fans of wxWidgets will also point you in the direction of
their favourite bindings. ;-)

David




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