[FAQ] "Best" GUI toolkit for python

[Adam M]

If my dusty memory is not wrong they were two projects aiming for GUI designer for wx: wxGlade (with option to generate code for Python) and Boa Contructor. I have no idea however if they are still available or working with newer wx.

I prefer for simple stuff Tk for something more sophisticated Qt (PySide or PyQt)

On Tuesday, October 18, 2016 at 4:09:46 PM UTC-4, Demosthenes Koptsis wrote:
> My favorite GUIs are PyQt and wxPython.
> 
> I prefer PyQt than PySide because PySide seem to me like an abandoned 
> project.
> 
> Also i prefer PyQt than wxPython because i can design the forms in 
> QtDesigner easily.
> 
> wxPython and wxWidgets do not have a GUI designer competitor to QtDesigner.
> 
> So, my choice is PyQt !
> 
> 
> On 10/18/2016 07:01 PM, pozz wrote:
> > Il 18/10/2016 16:56, Michael Torrie ha scritto:
> >> On 10/18/2016 02:33 AM, Mark Summerfield wrote:
> >>> When I started out I used Qt Designer to produce .ui files (XML) and
> >>> then used the Qt uic tool to convert this to C++ (although you can
> >>> convert to Python using pyuic). I then studied the code and learnt
> >>> from that. And it turns out that it isn't very hard. There is
> >>> QVBoxLayout - widgets one above the other; QHBoxLayout; widgets side
> >>> by side; QGridLayout - widgets in a grid. The only complication is
> >>> when you nest these, say a QVBoxLayout inside a QHBoxLayout inside a
> >>> QGridLayout; but in practice, once you've done it a few times it
> >>> isn't hard to picture. However, I know highly skilled people who
> >>> prefer to use Qt Designer, so it is no big deal either way.
> >>
> >> I am certainly not highly skilled. But I definitely do use the Designer
> >> for everything related to the GUI.  I don't, however, use uic or pyuic.
> >> What I recommend these days is to use the xml .ui file directly in your
> >> program to create the objects for you.  In C++ with an EXE, you can
> >> incorporate the .ui file into the executable as a resource.  In Python,
> >> I would just bundle it with all the other resources I might be using.
> >> For custom widgets I either build a simple plugin for Designer that lets
> >> me use the widgets as any other in the visual layout. Alternatively,
> >> I'll just change the class type in properties.
> >>
> >> The way you use the .ui file loader is to create a class in Python,
> >> usually for each window or dialog, and subclass it from the appropriate
> >> Qt type such as QDialog.  Then in the __init__() method, you call
> >> PyQt.uic.loadUi and it brings all the widgets in and initializes them
> >> and adds them to the QDialog you are defining. And if you follow the
> >> naming scheme for your callbacks of on_widgetname_signalName(), it will
> >> auto connect them. For example, if my button was called "myButton", I
> >> could name a slot to be on_myButton_clicked() and it would connect
> >> automatically.  PySides allows something similar with QUiLoader. I use a
> >> wrapper class that Sebastion Wiesner wrote to make it closer to a
> >> one-liner wrapper function like PyQt offers.
> >
> > What are the differences between PySides and PyQt... apart the licence?
> > Is PySides usable as PyQt?
> >
> >
> >> I agree with you about making GUIs programmatically being not hard,
> >> especially when one is learning.  When I first started using Qt, coming
> >> from GTK, I had to get used to a similar but different boxing model.  In
> >> GTK, when packing widgets you specify both the expansion and spacing
> >> while packing.  In Qt, you have explicit spacers to insert into the
> >> boxes.  I'm not sure which method is better.
> >
> > So you have some experience on GTK and QT.  Could you spend some time 
> > to describe a few differences? What do you like with Gtk and what you 
> > don't? And for Qt?
> >
> > When you worked with Gtk, have you used Glade as GUI Builder? Could 
> > you compare Glade and QT Designer?
> >