PyQt GUI

[Phil Thompson]

On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:11:51 +0200, "Diez B. Roggisch"
<deets at nospam.web.de>
wrote:
> Helvin wrote:
> 
>> Hi experts!
>> 
>> I'm developing a GUI for a software using PyQT, and need 3D
>> visualization. Should I use PyOpenGL or VTK?
>> I understand that the PyQt package comes with a opengl module. What
>> else would I need? I think I need to download opengl. but how? where?
>> I have VTK and pyVTK installed, but I don't know how to use it in my
>> code, as when I run it, an error says it can't find the vtk module.
> 
> VTK won't mix with Qt. And I don't think you need to download opengl - it
> either comes with your system (or gfx-drivers), or not. I'm not sure if
Qt
> actually wraps the OpenGL api itself, AFAIK it doesn't, so you need
> PyOpenGL I guess.

VTK has explicit support for both Qt (ie. via C++) and PyQt.

Phil