Python and GUI options
Randall Hopper
aa8vb at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 5 08:56:47 EST 2000
guppy:
|Have you looked at the wxPython interface to wxWindows? It's
|cross-platform compatible. It'd be interesting to hear if it's quick
|enough for you.
|Certainly at the rate its development is proceeding, it's set to become
|the new GUI standard for Python (thank gods!) (or, rather, thank Robin!)
Dose of reality. It has to take a big step in the cross-platform area
before that can happen. Tcl/Tk/Python builds without a hitch on a slew of
UNIX boxes ("configure", "make", "make install" - done). Sun, SGI, DEC,
FreeBSD, Linux, etcetc. Tweaking a few lines in Python's Setup.py is the
only "manual drudgery" involved.
wxWindows/wxGTK/wxPython requires someone with experience and persistence
to help it along on a standard SGI UNIX box, in compilation and
configuration.
Maybe someday though. wx* certainly sports some nice widgets. I'd like to
see them standard in whatever toolkit Python uses next year (I'd use them),
but not at the expense of cross-platform support.
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Randall Hopper
aa8vb at yahoo.com
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