[Tutor] Creating simple windows in XP

[Alan Gauld]

"Alex Krycek" <agent.krycek at gmail.com> wrote

> I'd like to create very simple GUI's in XP.  For the sake of 
> simplicity, I'm
> trying to avoid downloading and installing anything (although I am
> considering EasyGui).

The basic GUI framework in Python is Tkinter and that works fine on 
XP.
See my tutorial topic on GUI programming for a very simople intro 
before
trying any of themore fully featured Tkinter tutorials...

> To see how well it works, I've tried having my
> program run a Visual Basic script ( i.e. 
> subprocess.call(someScript.vbs,
> shell = True) ).  It seemed to work ok. I was just wondering if 
> there was a
> better and/or easier way of doing this.

That does of course work but is not really you creating a GUI its just
running another program. You could start Word or Excel just as easily!

There are many other Python GUI frameworks, some have GUI builders
somewhat like VB. But they are all downloadable add-ons. Tkinter is 
the
only one that comes as sandard. Its primitive, but easy to learn and 
use
for basic form style applications.

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Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
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