Cross-platform GUI development

[David Tremouilles]

Hello,

 I would recommend pyGTK http://www.pygtk.org/
- your app does look the same on all platform (like for Tkinter) (This
argurment apply if the same user would like to run the same app on
different platform and thus do not want to see something different on
each platform...)
- easy to install on all platform:
An all in one installed exist for windows:
http://aruiz.typepad.com/siliconisland/2006/12/allinone_win32_.html
- it looks nice and simple (it is originally the Gimp toolkit).

Just my two cents,

David


2007/10/12, psaffrey at googlemail.com <psaffrey at googlemail.com>:
> I've been programming in Python for 5 or more years now and whenever I
> want a quick-n-dirty GUI, I use Tkinter. This is partly because it's
> the first toolkit I learnt, but also because it's part of the standard
> Python distribution and therefore easy to get Python apps to work
> cross platform - it usually requires almost no porting effort.
>
> However, when I need a little bit more grunt, I tend to turn to Tix,
> which I thought was also fairly standard. However, this week, I wrote
> a Tix application under Linux which I'd really like to work on Mac OS
> and it's proving fairly painful to get it going. There is no Tix in
> the standard fink or apt repositories and when I download a tar-ball,
> it wouldn't build because it had a lot of unmet dependencies. I then
> read a post which said that only Tkinter/Python people really use Tix
> anymore and people in tcl/tk moved onto better toolkits long ago.
>
> My question is if Tix is old hat, what is the GUI toolkit I *should*
> be using for quick-n-dirty cross platform GUI development? I guess
> this is tangentially related to:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/2ed58ff6ac7d030c/42ed0d40ffd0b1c0?lnk=gst&q=tix+#42ed0d40ffd0b1c0
>
> I hope this isn't a stupid question. I'm wearing flame retardant
> underwear.
>
> Peter
>
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