python QT or python-GTK

Phil Thompson phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk
Sun Mar 18 18:07:41 EDT 2007


On Sunday 18 March 2007 9:55 pm, Jon Van DeVries wrote:
> ** All the posts found in google are old.  I'm assuming new improvements
> have been made to both IDEs. **
>
> Please correct me if I'm wrong, I'm a newbie.
>
> 1. Which one of them requires fewer lines to accomplish the same thing?
> from what I understand QT it's just like Borland J-Builder. Meaning, you
> want a button, you draw it, then you double-click on it, a window opens up
> and you type events and behavior. And with GTK, you just type everything.
>
> 2. Which one is cross platform? (Linux, MacOS, Windows,etc).
>
> 3. Which one has more widgets?
>
> 4. Which one is the easiest to pick up?  I tried perl-QT and oh boy that
> mother is cryptic.
>
> 5. Which one has a bigger support community?
>
> 6. or if you think both pythonQT and PythonGTK are junk please suggest the
> one you like/use? I work on a Linux platform with Python 2.4.

A good start would be to appreciate that both PyQt and PyGTK are GUI toolkits. 
Neither are IDEs.

Phil



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