building a GUI

Phil Thompson phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk
Sun Sep 23 17:34:54 EDT 2007


On Sunday 23 September 2007, stef mientki wrote:
> Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
> > stef mientki schrieb:
> >> Thomas Dybdahl Ahle wrote:
> >>> Den Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:28:38 +0200 skrev stef mientki:
> >>>> yadin wrote:
> >>>>> if i were up to make a GUI chich are the advantages of choosing
> >>>>> python over matlab or java?
> >>>>
> >>>> The best is Delphi,
> >>>> second is VB,
> >>>
> >>> That sounds mostly like a personal preference :)
> >>
> >> Well I prefer Python ( because of it's OS-independancy and it's open
> >> source),
> >> but Python is really (still) much worse for GUI designs.
> >> Just compare some parameters like:
> >> - ease of use
> >> - speed of development
> >> - support of features
> >> - availability of libraries
> >> - documentation
> >
> > Sounds like PyQt for me. Best GUI-designer I know, tremendous speed in
> > development, giant sized lib that does all kinds of stuff & is
> > brilliantly designed + professional grade docus.
>
> Could well be,
> but I never looked at PyQt seriously,
> because of their weird license.

It's not weird. It's either GPL or proprietary. Your choice. That's as 
complicated as it gets.

Phil



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